Arctides

Arctides
Arctides antipodarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Achelata
Family: Scyllaridae
Genus: Arctides
Holthuis, 1960 [1]
Species
  • Arctides guineensis (Spengler, 1799)
  • Arctides regalis Holthuis, 1963
  • Arctides antipodarum Holthuis, 1960

Arctides is a genus of slipper lobsters, containing three species.[2] 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.[2]

A regal slipper lobster (Arctides regalis) in Hawaii

References

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


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