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'''''Neolithodes indicus''''' is a species of [[king crab]] found in the southeastern [[Arabian Sea]].<ref name="Padate et al. 2020">{{cite journal|last1=Padate|first1=Vinay|last2=Cubelio|first2=Sherine Sonia|last3=Takeda|first3=Masatsune|date=September 2020|title=Description of a new species of deep-water king-crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the southeastern Arabian Sea|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344033174|url-status=live|journal=[[Zootaxa]]|volume=4845|issue=1|pages=71–82|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4845.1.5|pmid=33056786 |s2cid=222823654 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113223628/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vinay-Padate/publication/344033174_Description_of_a_new_species_of_deep-water_king-crab_Crustacea_Decapoda_Anomura_from_the_southeastern_Arabian_Sea/links/5f54cdb9299bf13a31a5027d/Description-of-a-new-species-of-deep-water-king-crab-Crustacea-Decapoda-Anomura-from-the-southeastern-Arabian-Sea.pdf|archive-date=2021-11-13|access-date=2021-11-13|via=ResearchGate}}</ref> <br />
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== Description ==<br />
''Neolithodes indicus'' has a pyriform [[carapace]] whose dorsal surface is heavily populated with small spinules inbetween major, conical spines; at the longest in one of its female [[Paratype|paratypes]], it has been measured at {{Convert|188.3|mm|in|abbr=on}} in length and {{Convert|169.7|mm|in|abbr=on}} in width.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> Its [[Rostrum (anatomy)|rostrum]] is about 3–10% as long as the postorbital carapace in large specimens.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> Like the carapace, its [[cheliped]]s and walking legs are covered in small spinules, and its rear walking legs – which are the longest – have four major spines.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> The chelipeds and walking legs are lighter in colouration than the carapace, however, which is a clay-like reddish-brown.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> Its chelae have several small spines and are lined with rows of golden [[seta]]e.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /><br />
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On the underside, its short, cylindrical fifth set of legs are tucked under its abdomen and covered in bristles.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> Except for the first segment which is sparsely populated with [[tubercle]]s, the abdomen is covered in numerous evenly spaced spinules.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> The median and submedian plates of the second segment of its abdomen bear large spines, as do the margins of the second through fifth segments.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /><br />
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== Distribution ==<br />
''Neolithodes indicus'' is known from three female specimens collected in the southeastern [[Arabian Sea]] off the coast of [[Thiruvananthapuram]] in [[Kerala]], India from 2013 to 2014.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> These three specimens were found at depths between {{Convert|1064–1338|m|ft|abbr=on}} in the mid-[[continental slope]] on a bathymetric protrusion known as the Terrace of Trivandrum.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /><br />
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== Taxonomy ==<br />
''Neolithodes indicus'' was described in 2020 by [[Carcinology|carcinologists]] Vinay Padate, Sherine Sonia Cubelio, and Masatsune Takeda.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> Its genus name "''Neolithodes''" is derived from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] and [[Latin]] and means "new [[Lithodes|stone-crab]]",<ref>{{cite book|last=Emmerson|first=W. D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzLZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|title=A Guide to, and Checklist for, the Decapoda of Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2016|isbn=978-1-4438-9097-7|volume=2|pages=93}}</ref> while its species name "[[wikt:indicus|indicus]]" is Latin for "Indian".<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> It is likely [[conspecific]] with ''Neolithodes alcocoki'', a ''[[nomen nudum]]'' suggested in the 1980s,<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /> and it was originally identified erroneously as ''[[Neolithodes agassizii|Lithodes agassizii]]''{{efn|Now ''Neolithodes agassizii''}} by A.R.S. Anderson in 1896.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Anderson|first=A.R.S.|date=1896|title=Natural history notes from the R.I.M. Survey Steamer 'Investigator,' Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding. Series II. No. 21. An account of the deep sea Crustacea collected during the season 1894–95|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37193657#page/112/mode/1up|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=LXV|issue=II|pages=88–106|issn=0368-1068|via=the [[Biodiversity Heritage Library]]}}</ref> ''N. indicus'' most closely resembles ''[[Neolithodes brodiei|N. brodiei]]'' from New Zealand, ''[[Neolithodes flindersi|N. flindersi]]'' from southeastern Australia, and ''[[Neolithodes nipponensis|N. nipponensis]]'' from Japan and Taiwan.<ref name="Padate et al. 2020" /><br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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[[Category:King crabs]]<br />
[[Category:Anomura of the Indian Ocean]]<br />
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