Neolithodes brodiei

Neolithodes brodiei is a species of king crab which is native to New Zealand and its adjacent waters.[2] It lives at a depth of 500–1,240 metres (1,640–4,070 ft) but is typically found within a depth of 950–1,150 metres (3,120–3,770 ft).[2] It has a deep-red colour, and its carapace has many small spinules along with larger spines.[2] It is classified as "Not Threatened" by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.[3]

Neolithodes brodiei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Family:
Lithodidae
Genus:
Neolithodes
Species:
N. brodiei
Binomial name
Neolithodes brodiei
Dawson & Yaldwyn, 1970[1]

Misidentifications

In 2001, a paper was published in Zoosystema which claimed to have found a specimen of N. brodiei in Vanuatu;[4] however, this was later determined to be a yet-undescribed species.[2] Likewise, a 2005 paper in Polar Biology claimed to have found four specimens off the Balleny Islands in the Southern Ocean,[5] but these were misidentified and were later determined to be a new species called Neolithodes yaldwyni.[2]

Etymology

"Neolithodes" is derived from Greek and Latin and means "new stone-crab",[6] while "brodiei" takes its namesake from J. W. Brodie, then-Director of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute.[1]

References
  1. Yaldwyn, John Cameron; Dawson, Elliot Watson (June 1970). "Diagnosis of a New Species of Neolithodes (Crustacea: Anomura: Lithodidae) from New Zealand (Note)" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 4 (2): 227–228. Retrieved 16 May 2020 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
  2. 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. 123. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. pp. 74–83. ISBN 978-0478232851. LCCN 2010497356. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2020.
  3. Freeman, Debbie; et al. (December 2014). Conservation status of New Zealand marine invertebrates, 2013 (PDF) (Report). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 9. Department of Conservation. p. 13. ISBN 978-0478150322. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  4. Macpherson, Enrique (2001). "New species and new records of lithodid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the southwestern and central Pacific Ocean" (PDF). Zoosystema. 23 (4): 797–805. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 August 2017 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
  5. Thatje, Sven; Lörz, Anne-Nina (10 November 2004). "First record of lithodid crabs from Antarctic waters off the Balleny Islands" (PDF). Polar Biology. 28: 334–337. doi:10.1007/s00300-004-0686-1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2017.
  6. Emmerson, W. D. (July 2016). A Guide to, and Checklist for, the Decapoda of Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-4438-9097-7.
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