- Lithodes santolla
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Lithodes santolla 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Family: Lithodidae Genus: Lithodes Species: L. santolla Binomial name Lithodes santolla
Jacquinot, 1844Synonyms Lithodes santolla, also known as the southern king crab in English or centolla in Peru, Chile and Argentina,[2] is a species of king crab, found off the Pacific coasts of South America, especially from Valdivia at 39° 50' S to Cape Horn at 60° S.[3] It lives in the benthic zone at depths up to 150 metres (490 ft), but south of 40° it has been found at 600 m (2,000 ft).[3]
The lucrative centolla fishery around Tierra del Fuego led to an incident in August 1967 when the Argentine schooner Cruz del Sur was found fishing 400 metres (1,300 ft) from Gable Island and had to be escorted out of Chilean waters by the Chilean patrol boat Marinero Fuentealba.[4] This event among many other led to the build of the Beagle conflict in the late 1970s.
References
- ^ Vinuesa, J. H., G. A. Lovrich & F. Tapella (1999). "New localities for Crustacea Decapoda in the Magellan region, southern South America" (PDF). Scientia Marina 63 (suppl. 1): 321–323. http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/viewFile/917/959.
- ^ Southern king crab (Lithodes antarcticus) Toxicity Studies
- ^ a b "Pesquera Melinka en Punta Arenas ofrece Centolla, Centollón y Caracoles". Servicios Agrícolas y Agroindustria. http://seragro.cl/?a=749. Retrieved January 17, 2009.
- ^ Patricia Arancibia Clavel & Francisco Bulnes Serrano (2004) (in Spanish). La Escuadra En Acción: 1978: el conflicto Chile-Argentina visto a través de sus protagonistas. Santiago: Maval Ltda. ISBN 9562582116.
External links
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