| Lithodes | |
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| Lithodes santolla | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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| Synonyms1 | |
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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.234
Species
Lithodes contains the following species:1
References
References
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- Stevens, B.G. (2014). King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4398-5542-3.
- Macpherson 1988a.
- 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
- 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.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 16–29.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 29–37.
- 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.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 37–41.
- Stevens & Lovrich 2014, p. 13.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 41–48.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 48–55.
- 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.
- Macpherson 1988a, pp. 62–64.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 55–60.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 60–66.
- Ahyong 2010, pp. 66–73.
- Macpherson 1988a, pp. 68–70.
- Lovrich & Tapella 2014, p. 450.
- Macpherson 1988a, pp. 73–75.
- 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.
Bibliography
- Macpherson, Enrique (June 1988a). Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean (PDF). Monografías de Zoología Marina. Vol. 2. pp. 62–64. doi:10.1163/9789004627369. hdl:10261/42482. ISBN 978-84-00-06807-3. S2CID 127331902. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-11-06 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
- Ahyong, Shane T. (2010). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia, and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) (PDF). NIWA Biodiversity Memoirs. Vol. 123. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. pp. 66–73. ISBN 978-0478232851. LCCN 2010497356. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2020.
- Stevens, Bradley G.; Lovrich, Gustavo A. (2014). "King Crabs of the World: Species and Distributions". In Stevens, Bradley G. (ed.). King Crabs of the World (1st ed.). CRC Press. doi:10.1201/b16664. ISBN 978-0-429-06317-6.
- Lovrich, Gustavo A.; Tapella, Federico (2014). "Southern King Crabs". In Stevens, Bradley G. (ed.). King Crabs of the World (1st ed.). CRC Press. doi:10.1201/b16664. ISBN 978-0-429-06317-6.