''Lithodes galapagensis'' is a species of

king crab King crabs are a taxon of decapod crustaceans chiefly found in cold seas. Because of their large size and the taste of their meat, many species are widely caught and sold as food, the most common being the red king crab (''Paralithodes camtsch ...

described in 2009 that lives around the Galapagos Islands, where known from depths of . The two specimens upon which it was described (the

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of sever ...

male and a

paratype In zoology and botany, a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype (and in botany is also neither an isotype nor a syntype). O ...

female) had a carapace length of , and the species quite resembles '' L. wiracocha'' from Peru.

References

King crabs Crustaceans of the eastern Pacific Ocean Galápagos Islands coastal fauna Crustaceans described in 2009 {{decapod-stub