''Lithodes robertsoni'', also known as Robertson's king crab,
[http://decapoda.aquarius-s.ru/lithodidae/lith_robs_20en.html] is a species of
king crab.
It has been found in
New Zealand
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at depths between .
It is distributed from as far north as the
Challenger Plateau to as far south as the
Snares Islands.
The largest yet-examined specimen is its male
holotype
A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of s ...
whose
carapace
A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tortoises, the unde ...
measures in
postrostral length and in width.
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King crabs
Crustaceans described in 2010
Taxa named by Shane T. Ahyong
Marine crustaceans of New Zealand
Anomura of the Pacific Ocean
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