Echidnocerus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Genus: Echidnocerus
White, 1842
Species

Echidnocerus foraminatus
Echidnocerus cibarius

Echidnocerus is a genus of king crab. It includes Echidnocerus foraminatus (the brown box crab) and Echidnocerus cibarius, the Puget Sound king crab.[1][2][3] The genus was long known as Lopholithodes until it was discovered in 2022 that Lopholithodes is a junior synonym of Echidnocerus.[3]

Species

Echidnocerus contains the following two species:[3]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Echidnocerus cibarius (White, 1842)Puget Sound king crabThe Pacific Coast of the United States
Echidnocerus foraminatus (Stimpson, 1860)Brown box crabFrom Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego, California

References

  1. Patsy A. McLaughlin; Tomoyuki Komai; Rafael Lemaitre & Dwi Listyo Rahayu (2010). Martyn E. Y. Low & S. H. Tan (eds.). "Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 23: 5–107. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.
  2. "Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 de Grave, Sammy; Ahyong, Shane T. "Echidnocerus White, 1842, an overlooked senior synonym of Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848 (Decapoda, Lithodidae)". Crustaceana. 95 (7): 861–865. doi:10.1163/15685403-bja10223.
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