Brown box crab
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| Lopholithodes foraminatus (Stimpson, 1859) |
The brown box crab, Lopholithodes foraminatus, is a king crab that lives from Kodiak Island, Alaska to San Diego, California [1]. It resmebles the red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus. The crab is lighter in color when young.
[edit] References
- ^ Brown box crab, Lopholithodes formaminatus. Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
