Paralomis dawsoni | |
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Conservation status | |
Naturally Uncommon (NZ TCS) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Lithodidae |
Genus: | Paralomis |
Species: | P. dawsoni |
Binomial name | |
Paralomis dawsoni Macpherson, 2001 |
Paralomis dawsoni is a species of king crab which lives in New Caledonia, northern New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands at depths of 400–1,118 m (1,312–3,668 ft). Alongside P. zealandica, it is one of the two most common species of Paralomis in New Zealand. As of 2023, the Department of Conservation in New Zealand classifies P. dawsoni as "Naturally Uncommon".
Description
P. dawsoni is orange-red or red-brown in colour and has a subhexagonal carapace covered uniformly in blunt tubercles. Tubercles and coarse spines cover its legs, and its chelipeds are especially spinose. It is the largest species of Paralomis known to occur in New Zealand, with one specimen measured to have a post-pseudorostral carapace length of 142.7 mm (5.62 in) and a carapace width of 139.8 mm (5.50 in).
Etymology
The species name "dawsoni" is dedicated to Elliot Watson Dawson of the National Museum of New Zealand.
References
- ^ Funnell, Greig; et al. (January 2023). Todd, Amanda (ed.). Conservation status of indigenous marine invertebrates in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021 (PDF) (Report). New Zealand Department of Conservation. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-99-118365-1. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- ^ Macpherson, Enrique (2001). "New species and new records of lithodid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the southwestern and central Pacific Ocean" (PDF). Zoosystema. 23 (4): 797–805. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 August 2017 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
- ^ Ahyong, Shane T. (2010). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia, and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) (PDF). NIWA Diversity Memoirs. Vol. 123. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. pp. 116–125. ISBN 978-0478232851. LCCN 2010497356. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2020.
- Macpherson, Enrique (2003). "Some lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the Solomon Islands (SW Pacific Ocean), with the description of a new species*" (PDF). Scientia Marina. 67 (4): 413–418. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2020 – via the Spanish National Research Council.
External links
- [REDACTED] Data related to Paralomis dawsoni at Wikispecies
Taxon identifiers | |
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Paralomis dawsoni |