Paralomis diomedeae


Paralomis diomedeae is a species of king crab. It is considered very rare and is known from Peru, the Gulf of Panama, and Costa Rica's Pacific coast at depths of.

Description

Paralomis diomedeae has an approximately pentagonal carapace which is orange-red in colour and covered in tubercles. Carapace widths of P. diomedeae found in Peruvian waters during a 1997–1998 fishing expedition ranged from in males and in females.

Taxonomy

Paralomis diomedeae was described in 1893 by carcinologist Walter Faxon as Echinocerus diomedeae, though he added it to Paralomis two years later in 1895. In 1896, Eugène Louis Bouvier returned it to its original genus. In 1972, redesignated it Lopholithodes, as the name had priority over Echinocerus. In 1988, Enrique Macpherson moved the species back into Paralomis, calling it closely related to P. cristulata and specifically noting its "abdomen typical of the genus Paralomis."

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