Lithodes

Macpherson, Enrique & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2008, Some lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from Taiwan and adjacent waters, with the description of one new species from Guam, Zootaxa 1924, pp. 43-52 : 47-48

Lithodes sp.

Material examined. Taiwan: Dasi fishing port, Yilan County, commercial trawl, 500–600 m, 6.6.1998: 1 ovigerous female 56 × 54 mm. — Stn PCP 344, 8.3.2006, 22º 15.952N, 120º 0.11E, 995–1073 m: 1 female 11 × 9 mm.

Coloration. Body reddish, eye black brown. Eggs orange.

Remarks. This species closely resembles the new species, Lithodes paulayi , from Guam, in the general arrangements of the spines on the carapace but the spines are relatively shorter, and there are also other differences. However, the Taiwanese material also appears closely related to another new species from southern Australia currently being described by Ahyong (in prep.), and thus its status will be further studied in that separate work.