Briarosaccus auratum Noever & Olson & Glenner 2016, N. SP

Briarosaccus auratum N. SP. Host: Lithodes aequispinus Holotype: One externa removed from its host, L. aequispinus, Southeastern Alaska. Museum number YPM 74282. Paraype: One externa removed from its host, L. aequispinus, Southeastern Alaska. Museum number YPM 74383. Molecular reference data: GenBank accession numbers KR812199 to KR812208 for COI, and KR812147 to KR812156 for 16S Etymology: The species is named after its host L. aequispinus, which is known as the golden king crab.
Published as part of Noever, Christoph, Olson, Andrew & Glenner, Henrik, 2016, Two new cryptic and sympatric species of the king crab parasite Briarosaccus (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) in the North Pacific, pp. 3-14 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12304, http://zenodo.org/record/4720599