Neolithodes capensis

{{Short description|Species of king crab}}

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| genus = Neolithodes

| species = capensis

| authority = Stebbing, 1905{{cite book|last=Stebbing|first=Thomas R. R.|chapter=South African Crustacea. Part III|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/marineinvestigat04ca#page/70/mode/2up|title=Marine Investigations in South Africa|year=1905|editor-last=Gilchrist|editor-first=John Dow Fisher|editor-link=John Gilchrist (zoologist)|volume=IV|pages=70–73|author-link=Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing}}

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Neolithodes capensis, also known as cape stone crab,{{cite book|url=https://www.saeon.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Field-Guide-to-SA-Offshore-Marine-Invertebrates_web-full-version_compressed.pdf|title=Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa|date=2018 |editor=Atkinson LJ, Sink KJ|publisher=Malachite Marketing and Media|page=189|isbn=978-1-86868-098-6|doi=10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001 |author1=Lara Atkinson |author2=Kerry Sink }} is a species of king crab which is found in the Southern Ocean and the western Indian Ocean. It has been found to a depth of {{Convert|660–3200|m|ft}}.{{Cite journal|last=Macpherson|first=Enrique|date=1988|title=Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean|url=https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12339/12339.pdf#page=33|url-status=live|journal=Monografías de Zoología Marina|volume=II|pages=40–42|issn=0213-4020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514090605/https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12339/12339.pdf|archive-date=14 May 2020|via=the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County}}{{Cite journal|last1=Griffiths|first1=Huw J.|last2=Whittle|first2=Rowan J.|last3=Roberts|first3=Stephen J.|last4=Belchier|first4=Mark|last5=Linse|first5=Katrin|date=July 2013|editor-last=Archambault|editor-first=Philippe|title=Antarctic Crabs: Invasion or Endurance?|journal=PLoS One|volume=8|issue=7|pages=e66981|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0066981|bibcode=2013PLoSO...866981G|pmc=3700924|pmid=23843974|doi-access=free}}{{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=74|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=73, 107|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}} They have been found near Cape Point, around the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the subantarctic,{{Cite journal|last=Macpherson|first=Enrique|date=26 March 2004|title=A new species and new records of lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands area (Subantarctica)|journal=Polar Biology|volume=27|issue=7|pages=418–422|doi=10.1007/s00300-004-0609-1|bibcode=2004PoBio..27..418M |s2cid=25109992}} and in the Bellingshausen Sea on the Antarctic continental slope.{{Cite journal|last1=García Raso|first1=J. E.|last2=Manjón-Cabeza|first2=M. E.|last3=Ramos|first3=A.|last4=Olaso|first4=I.|date=23 March 2005|title=New record of Lithodidae (Crustacea Decapoda, Anomura) from the Antarctic (Bellingshausen Sea)|url=http://atarazanas.sci.uma.es/docs/articulos/16613818.pdf|url-status=live|journal=Polar Biology|volume=28|issue=8|pages=642–646|doi=10.1007/s00300-005-0722-9|bibcode=2005PoBio..28..642G |hdl=10261/321709 |s2cid=2955102|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520105133/http://atarazanas.sci.uma.es/docs/articulos/16613818.pdf|archive-date=20 May 2020|via=the University of Málaga}}{{Cite journal|last1=Thatje|first1=Sven|last2=Hall|first2=Sally|last3=Hauton|first3=Chris|last4=Held|first4=Christoph|last5=Tyler|first5=Paul|date=27 May 2008|title=Encounter of lithodid crab Paralomis birsteini on the continental slope off Antarctica, sampled by ROV|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/51132/1/Thatje_PolarBiol_08.pdf|url-status=live|journal=Polar Biology|volume=31|issue=9|pages=1143–1148|doi=10.1007/s00300-008-0457-5|bibcode=2008PoBio..31.1143T |s2cid=1675115|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722211245/https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/51132/1/Thatje_PolarBiol_08.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2018|via=the University of Southampton}} In 2006, the description of a very similar species from the Ross Sea, N. yaldwyni, introduced the possibility that records from the Antarctic and subantarctic are not N. capensis.{{sfn|Ahyong|Dawson|2006|p=55}}{{sfn|Ahyong|2010|p=107}}