Lithodes nintokuae
Appearance
Lithodes nintokuae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Lithodidae |
Genus: | Lithodes |
Species: | L. nintokuae
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Binomial name | |
Lithodes nintokuae Sakai, 1978[1]
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Lithodes nintokuae is a species of king crab.[1] It is found between depths of 450–1,070 m (1,480–3,510 ft) in the central Pacific Ocean on the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, as far southeast as Hawaii and as far northwest as the Nintoku Seamount.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Sakai, Tune. "Decapod Crustacea from the Emperor Seamount Chain". Researches on Crustacea. 8 Supplement: 1–39. doi:10.18353/rcustacea.8Suppl.0_1. ISSN 0287-3478.
- ^ Dawson, E.W.; Yaldwyn, John Cameron (1985). "Lithodes nintokuae Sakai: A deep-water king crab (Crustacea, Anomura, Lithodidae) newly recorded from Hawaii". Pacific Science. 39 (1): 16–23.