Lithodes galapagensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Lithodidae
- Genus
- Lithodes
- Species
- Lithodes galapagensis
- Scientific Name
- Lithodes galapagensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lithodes galapagensis
Lithodes galapagensis is a species of king crab described in 2009 that lives around the Galápagos Islands, where it's known from depths of 648 and 740 m (2,126 and 2,428 ft). The two specimens upon which it was described (the holotype male and a paratype female) had a carapace length of 11.4 and 8.4 cm (4.5 and 3.3 in), and the species quite resembles L. wiracocha from Peru.
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Sibling Taxa
- Lithodes aequispinus
- Lithodes ahyongi
- Lithodes aotearoa
- Lithodes australiensis
- Lithodes ceramensis
- Lithodes chaddertoni
- Lithodes confundens
- Lithodes couesi
- Lithodes ferox
- Lithodes formosae
- Lithodes galapagensis
- Lithodes jessica
- Lithodes longispina
- Lithodes macquariae
- Lithodes maja
- Lithodes mamillifer
- Lithodes manningi
- Lithodes megacantha
- Lithodes murrayi
- Lithodes nintokuae
- Lithodes panamensis
- Lithodes paulayi
- Lithodes rachelae
- Lithodes richeri
- Lithodes robertsoni
- Lithodes santolla
- Lithodes turkayi
- Lithodes turritus
- Lithodes unicornis
- Lithodes wiracocha