Echidnocerus

Echidnocerus
Echidnocerus cibarius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Lithodidae
Subfamily:	Lithodinae
Genus:	Echidnocerus White, 1842
Type species
Echidnocerus cibarius White, 1842
Synonyms [1]
Ctenorhinus Gibbons, 1854 Echinocerus White, 1848 Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848

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]

Species

Echidnocerus contains the following two species: ^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	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

References

1. Ahyong, Shane T. (12 December 2023). "Echidnocerus White, 1842". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 21 October 2024.
2. 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.
3. "Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved October 25, 2011.
4. de Grave, Sammy; Ahyong, Shane T. (2022). "Echidnocerus White, 1842, an overlooked senior synonym of Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848 (Decapoda, Lithodidae)". Crustaceana . 95 (7): 861–865. Bibcode:2022Crust..95..861D. doi:10.1163/15685403-bja10223.

External links

• Media related to Echidnocerus at Wikimedia Commons