Echidnocerus is a genus of king crab. It includes Echidnocerus foraminatus (the brown box crab) and Echidnocerus cibarius, the Puget Sound king crab.[2][3][4] The genus was long known as Lopholithodes until it was discovered in 2022 that Lopholithodes is a junior synonym of Echidnocerus.[4]
| Echidnocerus | |
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| Echidnocerus cibarius | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Lithodidae |
| Genus: | Echidnocerus White, 1842 |
| Type species | |
| Echidnocerus cibarius White, 1842
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
editEchidnocerus contains the following two species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| Echidnocerus cibarius White, 1842 | Puget Sound king crab | Alaska to California | |
| Echidnocerus foraminatus Stimpson, 1859 | Brown box crab | From Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego, California |
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References
edit- ^ Ahyong, Shane T. (12 December 2023). "Echidnocerus White, 1842". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c 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.
External links
edit- Media related to Echidnocerus at Wikimedia Commons
