Lithodes murrayi

{{Short description|Species of king crab}}

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| image = Lithodes_murrayi_dorsal.jpg

| image_caption = Dorsal view of Lithodes murrayi

| genus = Lithodes

| species = murrayi

| authority = Henderson, 1888{{cite book|last=Henderson|first=John Robertson|author-link=John Robertson Henderson|chapter=Report on the Anomura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76|title=Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S Challenger During the Years 1873-76|series=Zoology|volume=XXVII|year=1888|publisher=United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18397|via=the Biodiversity Heritage Library}}

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Lithodes murrayi, also known as the subantarctic stone crab,{{cite report|last1=Pohle|first1=Gerhard|last2=Kenchington|first2=Trevor John|last3=Halliday|first3=R.G.|title=Potentially exploitable deepwater resources off Atlantic Canada|year=1992|publisher=Bedford Institute of Oceanography Department of Fisheries and Oceans|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261663678|via=ResearchGate|quote=Lithodes murrayi, the subantarctic stone crab, has also been briefly fished commercially off southwestern Africa [...]}} is a species of king crab.{{cite WoRMS|last=De Grave|first=Sammy|year=2021|title=Lithodes murrayi Henderson, 1888|id=241288|access-date=6 October 2024}} It lives near islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean on muddy bottoms at depths of {{convert|35–1015|m|ft|abbr=on}}.{{cite book|title=Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean|last=Macpherson|first=Enrique|date=June 1988|isbn=978-84-00-06807-3|series=Monografías de Zoología Marina|volume=2|pages=70–73|s2cid=127331902|doi=10.1163/9789004627369|hdl=10261/42482 |url=https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12339/12339.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106193135/https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12339/12339.pdf|archive-date=6 November 2023|url-status=live|via=the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County}}{{Cite book |editor-last=Stevens |editor-first=Bradley G. |title=King Crabs of the World |last1=Lovrich |first1=Gustavo A. |last2=Tapella |first2=Federico |publisher=CRC Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-429-06317-6 |edition=1st |pages=450 |chapter=Southern King Crabs |doi=10.1201/b16664}}