Lithodes galapagensis Hall & Thatje, 2009, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Hall, Sally, Thatje, Sven
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Lithodidae; Lithodes; Lithodes galapagensis; Galapagos; Seymour; Seymour Island; Sven
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5662611; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5662611

Lithodes galapagensis n. sp. (Figs 7, 8) Material examined. Galapagos Archipelago: Johnson Sea-Link II Cruise station 3101, Cabo Douglas, Fernandina Island, 00°17’30”S, 091°39’36”W, 17.07. 1998, 648m: male holotype, CL 114 mm; female paratype, CL 84 mm, Seymour Island, 00°21’42”S, 090°15’00”W, 25.07. 1998, 740 m (all USNM 1122586). Etymology. This species is named after its type locality, the Galapagos Islands. Description of the holotype. Carapace roughly pyriform in outline (Fig. 7 d); as wide as long when measured at maximal width of carapace. Dorsal regions well defined; covered uniformly with small spinules more or less acute at apex, without setae (Fig. 7 b). Gastric region convex and slightly more inflated than branchial and cardiac regions. One pair of slender spines 7 mm in length, emanating from the mid part of this region — level with hepatic spines on lateral margin. Spinules sparse on apex of gastric region and very few around base of prominent spines. Cardiac region depressed and separated from ... : Published as part of Hall, Sally & Thatje, Sven, 2009, Four new species of the family Lithodidae (Decapoda: Anomura) from the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 31-47 in Zootaxa 2302 on pages 42-45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191756 ...