Puget Sound king crab

Puget Sound king crab

Taxobox
name = Puget Sound King crab
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Anomura
familia = Lithodidae
genus = "Lopholithodes"
species = "L. mandtii"
binomial = "Lopholithodes mandtii"
binomial_authority = Brandt, 1849

The Puget Sound King crab, "Lopholithodes mandtii", is a species of king crab which lives in the oceans off the Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to central California. Adults are orange, red and purple in colour. They are larger than the similar Brown Box crab.

External links

*Cite web |url=http://rosario.wwc.edu/inverts/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Malacostraca/Eumalacostraca/Eucarida/Decapoda/Anomura/Family_Lithodidae/Lopholithodes_mandtii.html |title="Lopholithodes mandtii" (Brandt, 1849) |author=Dave Cowles |year=2004 |publisher=Walla Walla University |work=Key to invertebrates found at or near the Walla Walla University Marine Station (Rosario) Fidalgo Island, Anacortes, WA


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