Paralomis longipes
Paralomis longipes is a species of king crab.
Description
The dorsal carapace, pereiopods, and chelipeds are covered by small, thick blunt tubercles, each uniquely encircled by a ring of short. Its walking legs are very long, with longitudinal rows of tubercles and
short, stout spines over the walking pair of legs. It reaches a carapace length of up to and a carapace width up to.
Distribution
It lives around Chile, Peru, California, Costa Rica and to Colombia. In Peru, it reaches a depth of but in Chile reached a depth of.
Taxonomy
Paralomis longipes is a species of king crab described by Faxon in 1893, described by its long, elongated legs, It was known to resemble Paralomis multispina, another species of Paralomis. A specimen collected by the "Albatross", which is type USNM 18536, was a large male specimen. According to Roberts, the specimen has a carapace length being measured as large as and the breadth of the carapace was up to.
Ecology
The Peruvian specimens is known to be parasitized by large barnacles.