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671:Subantarctic stone crab
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920:Northwestern coast of
304:Lithodes australiensis
1221:Paleobiology Database
458:Lithodes galapagensis
380:Southwestern Atlantic
394:J. E. Benedict, 1895
343:Lithodes chaddertoni
232:Lithodes aequispinus
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700:Lithodes panamensis
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594:Lithodes mamillifer
527:Lithodes macquariae
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806:Lithodes santolla
736:Lithodes rachelae
612:Lithodes manningi
470:Galápagos Islands
437:Lithodes formosae
398:Scarlet king crab
280:Lithodes aotearoa
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518:and Taiwan
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294:New Zealand
215:Common Name
179:Neolithodes
117:Pleocyemata
1335:King crabs
1329:Categories
930:References
914:Haig, 1974
174:king crabs
137:Lithodidae
113:Suborder:
87:Arthropoda
848:near the
844:Southern
493:Southern
265:Ceram Sea
190:latitudes
185:Paralomis
154:Latreille
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67:Eukaryota
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