Neolithodes bronwynae

{{Short description|Species of king crab}}

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| image = Neolithodes bronwynae dorsal.jpg

| status = NU

| status_system = NZTCS

| status_ref = {{cite report|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs40entire.pdf|last1=Funnell|first1=Greig|last2=Gordon|first2=Dennis|last3=Daniel|first3=Leduc|last4=Makan|first4=Troy|last5=Marshall|first5=Bruce A.|last6=Mills|first6=Sadie|last7=Michel|first7=Pascale|last8=Read|first8=Geoff|last9=Schnabel|first9=Kareen|last10=Tracey|first10=Di|last11=Wing|first11=Stephen|editor-last=Todd|editor-first=Amanda|display-authors=1|title=Conservation status of indigenous marine invertebrates in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021|publisher=New Zealand Department of Conservation|page=24|isbn=978-1-99-118365-1|date=January 2023|access-date=19 March 2023}}

| genus = Neolithodes

| species = bronwynae

| authority = Ahyong, 2010

}}

Neolithodes bronwynae, commonly known as the rock crab,{{Cite web|title=Think twice before adding these to your seafood cocktail!|url=https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/think-twice-adding-these-your-seafood-cocktail|date=30 May 2017|website=Marine Biodiversity Hub|publisher=National Environmental Science Programme|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321163643/https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/think-twice-adding-these-your-seafood-cocktail|archive-date=21 March 2020|access-date=15 May 2020}}{{Cite news|date=19 December 2018|title=Deep-sea survey of Australian marine parks reveals striking species|work=Mongabay|url=https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/deep-sea-survey-of-australian-marine-parks-reveals-striking-species/|url-status=live|access-date=15 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829184721/https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/deep-sea-survey-of-australian-marine-parks-reveals-striking-species/|archive-date=29 August 2019}} is a species of king crab which is found at the Whakatane Seamount in the Bay of Plenty, the Lord Howe Rise near Lord Howe Island, eastern Australia, and possibly New Caledonia.{{Cite book|last=Ahyong|first=Shane T.|url=https://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/Memoir%20123_The%20Marine%20Fauna%20of%20New%20Zealand_King%20Crabs.pdf#page=84|title=The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia, and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)|publisher=National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research|year=2010|isbn=978-0478232851|series=NIWA Diversity Memoirs|volume=123|pages=83–89|lccn=2010497356|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215075140/https://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/Memoir%20123_The%20Marine%20Fauna%20of%20New%20Zealand_King%20Crabs.pdf|archive-date=15 February 2020|url-status=live}}{{Cite journal|last1=O'Hara|first1=T.D.|last2=Williams|first2=A.|last3=Ahyong|first3=S.T.|author-link3=Shane T. Ahyong|last4=Alderslade|first4=P.|last5=Alvestad|first5=T.|last6=Bray|first6=D.|last7=Burghardt|first7=I.|last8=Budaeva|first8=N.|last9=Criscione|first9=F.|last10=Crowther|first10=A.L.|last11=Ekins|first11=M.|last12=Eléaume|first12=M.|last13=Farrelly|first13=C.A.|last14=Finn|first14=J.K.|last15=Georgieva|first15=M.N.|last16=Graham|first16=A.|last17=Gomon|first17=M.|last18=Gowlett-Holmes|first18=K.|last19=Gunton|first19=L.M.|last20=Hallan|first20=A.|last21=Hosie|first21=A.M.|last22=Hutchings|first22=P.|last23=Kise|first23=H.|last24=Köhler|first24=F.|last25=Kongsgrud|first25=J.A.|last26=Kupriyanova|first26=E.|last27=Lu|first27=C.C.|last28=Mackenzie|first28=M.|last29=Mah|first29=C.|last30=MacIntosh|first30=H.|last31=Merrin|first31=K.L.|last32=Miskelly|first32=A.|last33=Mitchell|first33=M.L.|last34=Moore|first34=K.|last35=Murray|first35=A.|last36=O'Loughlin|first36=P.M.|last37=Paxton|first37=H.|last38=Pogonoski|first38=J.J.|last39=Staples|first39=D.|last40=Watson|first40=J.E.|last41=Wilson|first41=R.S.|last42=Zhang|first42=J.|last43=Bax|first43=N.J.|display-authors=1|title=The lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor fauna of eastern Australia|date=18 September 2020|journal=Marine Biodiversity Records|volume=13|issue=1 |page=Article number 11|doi=10.1186/s41200-020-00194-1|doi-access=free|bibcode=2020MBdR...13...11O |issn=1755-2672|hdl=11250/2756927|hdl-access=free}} It has been found at depths of {{Convert|1515–2643|m|ft}}.{{Cite journal |last1=Farrelly |first1=Caroline A. |last2=Ahyong |first2=Shane T. |author-link2=Shane T. Ahyong |year=2019 |title=Deepwater decapod, stomatopod and lophogastrid Crustacea from Eastern Australia and the Great Australian Bight collected in 2015–2017: preliminary identifications of 191 species |journal=Museum Victoria Science Reports |volume=21 |issue=21 |pages=1–97 |doi=10.24199/j.mvsr.2019.21 |issn=1833-0290 |doi-access=free}}