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Species of king crab

Lithodes unicornis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Genus: Lithodes
Species: L. unicornis
Binomial name
Lithodes unicornis
Macpherson, 1984

Lithodes unicornis is a species of king crab. It lives at the muddy bottoms of an oceanic plateau in the southern Atlantic Ocean's Walvis Ridge known as the Valdivia Bank, residing at a depth of about 935 m (3,068 ft).

Appearance

L. unicornis is cream-coloured with pinkish-tinged walking legs and carapace, darker pinkish spines and dactyli, and yellowish setae which grow from its fingers. It has a pentagonal carapace which has been measured in males to be as long as 129 mm (5.1 in) and as wide as 124 mm (4.9 in). It is morphologically similar to L. murrayi, but it has a visibly thinner central rostral spine.

References

  1. ^ Macpherson, Enrique (October 1984). "Crustáceos Decápodos del Banco Valdivia (Atlántico sudoriental)" (PDF). Resultados de Expediciones Científicas (in Spanish). 12: 76–80. ISSN 0211-836X. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  2. ^ Macpherson, Enrique (June 1988). Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean (PDF). Monografías de Zoología Marina. Vol. 2. pp. 73–75. doi:10.1163/9789004627369. ISBN 978-84-00-06807-3. S2CID 127331902. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-11-06 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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Taxon identifiers
Lithodes unicornis
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