Phyllolithodes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Lithodidae |
Genus: | Phyllolithodes Brandt, 1848[1] |
Species: | P. papillosus
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Binomial name | |
Phyllolithodes papillosus Brandt, 1848
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Phyllolithodes is a monospecific genus of king crab in the family Lithodidae. Its only species, Phyllolithodes papillosus (nicknamed the flatspine triangle crab[3]), lives in the intertidal zone and the subtidal zone.[4] It can be found as far north as Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands and as far south as San Miguel Island in Southern California.[4] Phyllolithodes is likely a sister genus of Rhinolithodes.[5]