Neolithodes, A. Milne Edwards & Bouvier, 1894

Macpherson, Enrique, 2001, New species and new records of lithodid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the southwestern and central Pacific Ocean, Zoosystema 23 (4), pp. 797-805 : 799

Neolithodes sp.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Marquesas Islands. MUSORSTOM 9, stn CP 1278, 7°52.1’S,

140°38.6’W, 1000 m, 5.IX.1997, 1 juv. 9 × 7.5 mm (MNHN-Pg 5944).

REMARKS

The genus Neolithodes has not been cited in the Central Pacific. However, the specimen from Marquesas Islands is quite small to be identified accurately. The specimen seems to belong to the group of species in which the carapace, cheliped and walking legs have no spinules or granules, in addition to the main spines, e.g., N. diomedeae (Benedict, 1894) from the southwestern Atlantic and eastern Pacific, N. vinogradovi Macpherson, 1988 , from the eastern Indian ocean and southwestern Pacific ( Macpherson 1988, 1990).