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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLithodes megacantha Macpherson, 1991 
AphiaID: 550464

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArthropoda (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCrustacea (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMulticrustacea (Superclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMalacostraca (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEumalacostraca (Subclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEucarida (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDecapoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPleocyemata (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnomura (Infraorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLithodoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLithodidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLithodes (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLithodes megacantha (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLithodes Latreille, 1806
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLithodes megacantha Macpherson, 1991
Source  basis of record Mclaughlin, P. A.; Komai, T.; Lemaitre, R.; Listyo, R. (2010). Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea. Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No 23, 5-107. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
South Pacific Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorFrench Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection 
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:550464
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-12-07 11:27:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2013-04-08 01:46:33Z  checked  Ahyong, Shane
  
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  Citation: Ahyong, S. (2015). Lithodes megacantha Macpherson, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=550464 on 2016-09-30
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