Lithodidae from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with descriptions of two new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)

The lithodid crab fauna of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, comprises three species in two genera. Two species are new to science: Neolithodes yaldwyni sp. nov. and Paralomis stevensi sp. nov. Neolithodes yaldwyni, previously misidentified from off the Balleny Islands in the Ross Sea as N. brodiei, is morp...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zootaxa
Main Authors: AHYONG, SHANE T., DAWSON, ELLIOT W.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mangolia Press 2006
Subjects:
Crustacea
Lithodidae
Neolithodes yaldwyni
Paralomis stevensi
Paralomis birsteini
Briarosaccus
new species
Antarctica
Ross Sea
taxonomy
Southern Ocean
Kerguelen
Balleny Islands
Macpherson
Antarc*
Online Access:https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.1303.1.3
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1303.1.3

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