Neolithodes duhameli

Neolithodes duhameli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Lithodidae
Genus:	Neolithodes
Species:	N. duhameli
Binomial name
Neolithodes duhameli Macpherson, 2004[1]

Neolithodes duhameli is a species of king crab that is found in the Crozet Islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean from a depth of 620–1,500 metres (2,030–4,920 ft).^[1][2]

Neolithodes duhameli has a dark red, pyriform carapace which is evenly covered in a combination of long, thick spines (of up to about +1⁄3 the carapace length) and many spinules.^[3] Females are known to grow up to 144 mm (5.7 in) in carapace width and 120 mm (4.7 in) in carapace length, and the rearmost walking legs are each about twice as long as the carapace.^[3]

Neolithodes duhameli was first described in 2004 by carcinologist Enrique Macpherson.^[1] It is among a subgroup of Neolithodes – alongside N. agassizii, N. asperrimus, and N. nipponensis – whose carapace, chelipeds, and walking legs are covered with many spinules or spine-like granules.^[4] The specific name duhameli honours Guy Duhamel of the National Museum of Natural History in France.^[5]

• Macpherson, Enrique (26 March 2004). "A new species and new records of lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands area (Subantarctica)". Polar Biology. 27 (7): 418–422. Bibcode:2004PoBio..27..418M. doi:10.1007/s00300-004-0609-1. S2CID 25109992.
• Ahyong, Shane T. (2010). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia, and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) (PDF). NIWA Diversity Memoirs. Vol. 123. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. pp. 73, 96. ISBN 978-0478232851. LCCN 2010497356. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2020.

• Data related to Neolithodes duhameli at Wikispecies
• Images of N. duhameli at the National Museum of Natural History, France

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