''Thymopsis nilenta'' is a species of

lobster Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs ...

and the only species in the genus ''Thymopsis''. It is found around the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...

and South Georgia at depths of . It reaches a total length of , of which the

carapace A carapace is a Dorsum (biology), dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tor ...

makes up about . It is known from a total of four specimens collected from two localities.

References

True lobsters Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean Crustaceans described in 1974 {{Decapoda-stub