Paralomis aculeata

{{Short description|Species of king crab}}

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| image = Paralomis_aculeata.png

| image_caption = Male holotype of P. aculeata figured by Henderson in 1888

| taxon = Paralomis aculeata

| authority = Henderson, 1888

| synonyms = * Paralomis aculeatus {{small|Henderson, 1888}}

| synonyms_ref = {{cite WoRMS|last=De Grave|first=Sammy|date=30 November 2021|title=Paralomis aculeata Henderson, 1888|id=550646|access-date=21 October 2024}}

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Paralomis aculaeta is a species of king crab described from the male holotype found off the coast of Prince Edward Island, a sub-Antarctic island, by J.R. Henderson on HMS Challenger in 1888.{{Cite web|title=Paralomis aculeata Henderson, 1888|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=550646|access-date=2020-11-01|website=World Register of Marine Species}} Its carapace was first described as having a width of 39 mm and length of 42 mm.{{Cite web|last=Henderson|first=JR|date=1888|title=Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 27 (part 69): i-xi, 1-221, pl. 1-21|url=http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-69/README.htm|access-date=2020-11-01}} It is distributed in the western outreach of the Southwest Indian Ridge.{{Cite journal|last1=Spiridonov|first1=Vassily|last2=Türkay|first2=Michael|last3=Arntz|first3=Wolf E.|last4=Thatje|first4=Sven|date=2006-01-01|title=A new species of the genus Paralomis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the Spiess seamount near Bouvet Island (Southern Ocean), with notes on habitat and ecology|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/24121/1/Spiridonov_PolarBiol_06.pdf|journal=Polar Biology|language=en|volume=29|issue=2|pages=137–146|doi=10.1007/s00300-005-0087-0|bibcode=2006PoBio..29..137S |issn=1432-2056|url-access=|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=}} The crab is caught during bottom trawling for Lepidonotothen squamifrons, at a frequency of 25–30%.{{Cite report |last=Pshenichnov|first=LK |date=1996 |title=Potentially commercial invertebrates on Ob Bank: Moroteuthis ingens (Oegopsida) and Paralomis aculeata (Anomura) (Division 58.4.4) |url=https://www.ccamlr.org/en/node/69925 |access-date=2020-11-01 |publisher=Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) |series=Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment Meeting Documents |docket=WG-FSA-96/15 }}