Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Crustacea Order Decapoda Scientific name Lithodes galapagensis | Phylum Arthropoda Class Malacostraca Family Lithodidae Rank Species | |
Similar Lithodes longispina, Neolithodes grimaldii, Cryptolithodes, Cryptolithodes sitchensis, Glyptolithodes | ||
Lithodes galapagensis is a species of king crab identified in 2009 which lives around the Galapagos Islands, in warm water. King crabs had once been thought to be confined to cold waters.
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