porcupine king crab

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Neolithodes grimaldii, the porcupine crab, is a species of king crab. It is found in cold, deep waters in the North Atlantic, often caught as bycatch in fisheries for Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides). As suggested by its common name, the carapace and legs are covered in long spines.

Neolithodes es un género de cangrejos anomuros perteneciente a la familia Lithodidae. ​ Taxonomía Neolithodes es un género de cangrejos reales establecido por A. Milne Edwards y Eugene Louis Bouvier en 1894, con dos especies iniciales (Neolithodes grimaldii y Neolithodes diomedeae).