Lithodes panamensis

Lithodes panamensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Genus: Lithodes
Species:
L. panamensis
Binomial name
Lithodes panamensis
Faxon, 1893

Lithodes panamensis is a species of king crab. It is distributed along the Pacific coast of South America from Panama to northern Chile.

Fig. 1 L. panamensis.

References

  1. 1 2 Faxon, Walter. "Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 24 (7): 149–220 – via WoRMS.
  2. ↑ Arguelles, J.; Larriviere, P.; Thatje, S.; Pérez, M. (2020). "King Crabs of Peruvian Waters During 2003–2004: New Insights". In Hendrickx, Michel E. (ed.). Deep-Sea Pycnogonids and Crustaceans of the Americas (1st ed.). Springer. pp. 375–394. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58410-8. ISBN 978-3-030-58409-2.