Neolithodes grimaldii

"Porcupine crab" redirects here. For the species from the northwest Pacific Ocean that sometimes is kept in public aquariums, see Paralomis histrix.

Porcupine crab
Illustration from Ray Lankester's A Treatise on Zoology above, museum specimen below (living are red)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Genus: Neolithodes
Species:
N. grimaldii
Binomial name
Neolithodes grimaldii
Synonyms[1]

Neolithodes grimaldii, the porcupine crab,[2] is a species of king crab in the family Lithodidae. This large red crab is found in cold deep waters in the North Atlantic and often caught as a bycatch in fisheries for Greenland turbot (Greenland halibut). As suggested by its common name, the carapace and legs are covered in long spines.[3]

  1. ^ De Grave, Sammy (27 January 2022). "Neolithodes grimaldii (A Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1894)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Davidson2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Neolithodes grimaldii" (PDF). Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.