Lithodid crab from Mauritania (Neolithodes asperrimus)
Description
Lithodid from near abandoned oil well off Mauritania. Best identification is Neolithodes asperrimus although picture quality prevents high confidence.
| Item Type: | Image |
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| Title: | Lithodid crab from Mauritania (Neolithodes asperrimus) |
| Creator(s): | Jones, Daniel |
| Identification: | Snow, Sally |
| Date: | 23 October 2004 |
| Time: | 15:08:23 |
| Classification: | Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) > Class Malacostraca (Crabs, krill, pill bugs, shrimps, prawns) > Order Decapoda (Crabs, lobsters, prawns, shrimps) > Family Lithodidae (King crabs) |
| Species: | Neolithodes asperrimus |
| Behaviour: | near oil well protection structure |
| Site: | Atlantic > Northern Tropical Atlantic > Tiof |
| Site Description: | Seafloor |
| Depth (m): | 1315 |
| Latitude: | 17 deg 56' 18" N |
| Longitude: | 16 deg 52' 03" W |
| Northing: | 19843447 |
| Easting: | 302201 |
| UTM Zone: | 28 |
| Countries: | West Africa > Mauritania |
| Substratum: | soft sediment |
| Rig: | Boa Deep C |
| Project Partners: | Woodside, Oceaneering |
| ROV: | Millenium 22 |
| Keywords: | crab, well, mauritania, Neolithodes asperrimus |
| Deposited By: | Dr Daniel Jones |
| Deposited On: | 12 January 2010 |
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