Neolithodes capensis
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| Neolithodes capensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Lithodidae |
| Genus: | Neolithodes |
| Species: | N. capensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Neolithodes capensis | |
Neolithodes capensis, also known as cape stone crab,[2] is a species of king crab that 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).[3][4][5] They have been found near Cape Point,[1] around the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the subantarctic,[6] and in the Bellingshausen Sea on the Antarctic continental slope.[7][8] In 2006, the description of a very similar species from the Ross Sea, N. yaldwyni, introduced the possibility that records from the Antarctic and subantarctic are not N. capensis.[9][10]
