Tags: Crustacean.

Glyptolithodes cristatipes also known as the Peruvian centolla is a species of king crab and the only species in the genus Glyptolithodes. The species was briefly placed in the related genus Rhinolithodes after its initial description but was soon moved to its own genus.

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binomial authority
Walter Faxon
class
Malacostraca
family
King crab
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
Rhinolithodes cristatipes (Faxon 1893)

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