Cryptolithodes

Not to be confused with Cryptolithus.

Cryptolithodes
Cryptolithodes typicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Lithodidae
Subfamily:	Lithodinae
Genus:	Cryptolithodes Brandt, 1848 [1]
Type species
Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1848

Cryptolithodes is a genus of king crabs, containing the following three species:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Cryptolithodes expansus Miers, 1879	メンコガニ	Japan, Korean coast, British Columbia
	Cryptolithodes sitchensis Brandt, 1853	Umbrella crab	Northeastern Pacific Ocean
	Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1848	Butterfly crab, turtle crab	Northeastern Pacific Ocean

Etymology

The name "Cryptolithodes" means "hidden stone". ^[2]

References

1. von Brandt, Johann Friedrich (1848). "Die Gattung Lithodes Latreille nebst vier neuer ihr ver wandten von Wosnessenski entdeckten, als Typen einer besondern Unter abtheilung (Tribus Lithodea) der Edward'shen Anomuren". Bulletin de la Classe physico-mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Pétersbourg (in German). 7 (11): 171–176.
2. Hart, Josephine F. L. (May 1965). "Life History and Larval Development of Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt (Decapoda, Anomura) from British Columbia". Crustaceana . 8 (3): 255–276. Bibcode:1965Crust...8..255H. doi: 10.1163/156854065X00460 . JSTOR   20102652. S2CID   83881135.

External links

• Media related to Cryptolithodes at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Cryptolithodes at Wikispecies