Neolithodes grimaldii
Neolithodes grimaldii, the porcupine crab, is a species of king crab in the family Lithodidae. This large red crab is found in cold deep waters in the North Atlantic and often caught as a bycatch in fisheries for Greenland turbot (Greenland halibut). As suggested by its common name, the carapace and legs are covered in long spines.
| Porcupine crab | |
|---|---|
| Illustration from Ray Lankester's A Treatise on Zoology above, museum specimen below (living are red) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Lithodidae |
| Genus: | Neolithodes |
| Species: | N. grimaldii |
| Binomial name | |
| Neolithodes grimaldii (A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1894) | |
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