Lithodes is a genus of king crabs. Today there are about 30 recognized species, but others formerly included in this genus have been moved to Neolithodes and Paralomis.[1] They are found in oceans around the world, ranging from shallow to deep waters, but mostly at depths of 100–1,000 m (300–3,300 ft). They are restricted to relatively cold waters, meaning that they only occur at high depths at low latitudes, but some species also shallower at high latitudes. They are medium to large crabs, and some species are or were targeted by fisheries.[2][3][page needed][4]

Lithodes
Lithodes santolla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Subfamily: Lithodinae
Genus: Lithodes
Latreille, 1806
Type species
Lithodes maja
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pseudolithodes Birstein & Vinogradov, 1972

Species

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Lithodes contains the following species:[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistributionReferences
Lithodes aequispinus Benedict, 1895Golden king crabNorth Pacific
Lithodes ahyongi Takeda, 2018Seram Sea[5]
Lithodes aotearoa Ahyong, 2010New Zealand[6]
Lithodes australiensis Ahyong, 2010Southeastern Australia[7]
Lithodes ceramensis Takeda & Nagai, 2004Seram Sea[8]
Lithodes chaddertoni Ahyong, 2010Indian Ocean (Naturaliste Plateau or Broken Ridge)[9]
Lithodes confundens Macpherson, 1988Southwestern Atlantic
Lithodes couesi Benedict, 1895Scarlet king crabNortheastern Pacific Ocean and Burdwood Bank[10][11]
Lithodes ferox Filhol, 1885Fierce king crabSoutheastern Atlantic Ocean
Lithodes formosae Ahyong & Chan, 2010Taiwan[12]
Lithodes galapagensis Hall & Thatje, 2009The Galápagos Islands[13]
Lithodes jessica Ahyong, 2010Southern Lord Howe Rise[14]
Lithodes longispina Sakai, 1971Japan and Taiwan
Lithodes macquariae Ahyong, 2010Macquarie Island, the Auckland Islands, and Peter I Island[15]
Lithodes maja (Linnaeus, 1758)Norway king crab, northern stone crabNorth Atlantic
Lithodes mamillifer Macpherson, 1988Between South Africa and Madagascar[16]
Lithodes manningi Macpherson, 1988Dominica and French Guiana[17]
Lithodes megacantha Macpherson, 1991French Polynesia[18]
Lithodes murrayi Henderson, 1888Subantarctic stone crabSouthwestern Indian Ocean
Lithodes nintokuae Sakai, 1976Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain[19]
Lithodes panamensis Faxon, 1893Pacific coast of South America from Panama to northern Chile
Lithodes paulayi Macpherson & Chan, 2008Guam[20]
Lithodes rachelae Ahyong, 2010Southern coast of Australia[21]
Lithodes richeri Macpherson, 1990Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Australia[22]
Lithodes robertsoni Ahyong, 2010New Zealand[23]
Lithodes santolla (Molina, 1782)Southern king crab, Chilean king crab, centollaSouthern Cone
Lithodes turkayi Macpherson, 1988Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, Southern Atlantic Ocean near the Falkland Islands, and Bellingshausen Sea[24][25]
Lithodes turritus Ortmann, 1892Japan, the East China Sea, Taiwan, and the Philippines
Lithodes unicornis Macpherson, 1984Valdivia Bank, Walvis Ridge[26]
Lithodes wiracocha Haig, 1974Northwestern coast of Peru[27]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Ahyong, Shane T. (2023). "Lithodes Latreille, 1806". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  2. Stevens, B.G. (2014). King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4398-5542-3.
  3. Macpherson 1988a.
  4. Emmerson, W.D. (2016). A Guide to, and Checklist for, the Decapoda of Namibia, South Africa, vol. 2. Cambridge Scholar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-9097-7
  5. Takeda, Masatsune (August 2018). "A new king crab of the genus Lithodes Latreille, 1806 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Lithodidae) from Indonesia" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A. 44 (3): 87–92. ISSN 2434-0901. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2024 via the National Museum of Nature and Science.
  6. Ahyong 2010, pp. 16–29.
  7. Ahyong 2010, pp. 29–37.
  8. Takeda, Masatsune; Nagai, Shinji (22 March 2004). "Four Species of Giant Crustaceans from the Indonesian Depths, with Description of a New Species of the Family Lithodidae" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series A, Zoology. 30 (1): 9–21. ISSN 0385-2423. S2CID 220054163. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 July 2020 via the National Museum of Nature and Science.
  9. Ahyong 2010, pp. 37–41.
  10. Stevens & Lovrich 2014, p. 13.
  11. Pérez-Barros, Patricia; Albano, Mariano; Diez, Mariano J.; Lovrich, Gustavo A. (2020). "Pole to pole: the deep-sea king crab Lithodes couesi (Decapoda: Lithodidae) in the Burdwood Bank, Southwestern Atlantic Ocean". Polar Biology. 43 (1): 81–86. Bibcode:2020PoBio..43...81P. doi:10.1007/s00300-019-02609-x. hdl:11336/175094.
  12. Ahyong, Shane T.; Chan, Tin-Yam (11 January 2010). "Lithodes formosae, a new species of king crab from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)". Zootaxa. 2332 (1): 61–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2332.1.5 via ResearchGate.
  13. Hall, Sally; Thatje, Sven (2009). "Four new species of the family Lithodidae (Decapoda: Anomura) from the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2302: 31–47. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2302.1.3.
  14. Ahyong 2010, pp. 41–48.
  15. Ahyong 2010, pp. 48–55.
  16. Macpherson, Enrique (1988b). "Lithodid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lithodidae) from Madagascar and La Réunion (SW Indian Ocean) with descriptions of two new species". Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section A, Zoologie, biologie et écologie animales. 4. 10: 117–133. doi:10.5962/p.287499 via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  17. Macpherson 1988a, pp. 62–64.
  18. Macpherson, Enrique (1991). "A new species of the genus Lithodes (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lithodidae) from french Polynesia" (PDF). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. 4. 13 (1): 152–157. doi:10.5962/p.289835. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  19. Dawson, Elliot Watson; Yaldwyn, John Cameron (1985). "Lithodes nintokuae Sakai: A deep-water king crab (Crustacea, Anomura, Lithodidae) newly recorded from Hawaii". Pacific Science. 39 (1): 16–23. hdl:10125/509.
  20. Macpherson, Enrique; Chan, Tin-Yam (2008). "Some lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from Taiwan and adjacent waters, with the description of one new species from Guam". Zootaxa. 1924: 43–52. doi:10.5281/zenodo.184757 via ResearchGate.
  21. Ahyong 2010, pp. 55–60.
  22. Ahyong 2010, pp. 60–66.
  23. Ahyong 2010, pp. 66–73.
  24. Macpherson 1988a, pp. 68–70.
  25. Lovrich & Tapella 2014, p. 450.
  26. Macpherson 1988a, pp. 73–75.
  27. Haig, Janet (November 1974). "Observations on the lithodid crabs of Peru, with description of two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 73 (3): 152–164. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023 via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

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