Echidnocerus Explained

Echidnocerus is a genus of king crab. It includes Echidnocerus foraminatus (the brown box crab) and Echidnocerus cibarius, the Puget Sound king crab.^{[1] [2]} The genus was long known as Lopholithodes until it was discovered in 2022 that Lopholithodes is a junior synonym of Echidnocerus.^[2]

Species

Echidnocerus contains the following two species:^[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Echidnocerus cibarius	Puget Sound king crab	The Pacific Coast of the United States
	Echidnocerus foraminatus	Brown box crab	From Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego, California

Notes and References

1. Patsy A. McLaughlin. Tomoyuki Komai. Rafael Lemaitre. Dwi Listyo Rahayu. amp . 2010 . Martyn E. Y. Low . S. H. Tan . 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 . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 23 . 5–107 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120122104557/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz005-107.pdf . 2012-01-22 .
2. de Grave. Sammy. Ahyong. Shane T.. Shane T. Ahyong. Echidnocerus White, 1842, an overlooked senior synonym of Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848 (Decapoda, Lithodidae). Crustaceana. 95. 7. 861–865. 10.1163/15685403-bja10223.
3. de Grave. Sammy. Ahyong. Shane T.. Shane T. Ahyong. Echidnocerus White, 1842, an overlooked senior synonym of Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848 (Decapoda, Lithodidae). Crustaceana. 95. 7. 861–865. 10.1163/15685403-bja10223.