Brown box crab

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Brown box crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Genus: Lopholithodes
Species: L. foraminatus
Binomial name
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 resembles the red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus. The crab is lighter in color when young.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Brown box crab, Lopholithodes formaminatus. Alaska Fisheries Science Center.