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Genus of crustaceans

Arctides
Arctides antipodarum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Scyllaridae
Subfamily: Arctidinae
Genus: Arctides
Holthuis, 1960 
Species

Arctides is a genus of slipper lobsters, containing three species. The largest of these, A. antipodarum, has a carapace up to 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, and is found off south-eastern Australia and parts of New Zealand. The other two species are smaller, at up to 70 millimetres (2.8 in) carapace length; A. guineensis is found in an area similar to the Bermuda Triangle; A. regalis is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific, from the Mascarene Islands to Hawaii and Easter Island.

A regal slipper lobster (Arctides regalis) in Hawaii

References

  1. "Arctides Holthuis, 1960". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
  2. ^ Lipke B. Holthuis (2006). "Revision of the genus Arctides Holthuis, 1960 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 28 (2): 417–433.
Taxon identifiers
Arctides


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