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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Lithodidae |
Genus: | Neolithodes |
Species: | N. capensis
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Binomial name | |
Neolithodes capensis |
Neolithodes capensis is a species of king crab which is found in the Southern Ocean and the western Indian Ocean. It has been found to a depth of 660–3,200 metres (2,170–10,500 ft). [2] [3] [4]
They have been found near Cape Point [1] and around the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the subantarctic, [5] and they are widespread in the Bellingshausen Sea on the Antarctic continental slope. [6] [7]
Neolithodes capensis closely resembles Neolithodes yaldwyni, another king crab of the Southern Ocean. [4]
Neolithodes capensis | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Lithodidae |
Genus: | Neolithodes |
Species: | N. capensis
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Binomial name | |
Neolithodes capensis |
Neolithodes capensis is a species of king crab which is found in the Southern Ocean and the western Indian Ocean. It has been found to a depth of 660–3,200 metres (2,170–10,500 ft). [2] [3] [4]
They have been found near Cape Point [1] and around the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the subantarctic, [5] and they are widespread in the Bellingshausen Sea on the Antarctic continental slope. [6] [7]
Neolithodes capensis closely resembles Neolithodes yaldwyni, another king crab of the Southern Ocean. [4]