Echidnocerus foraminatus brown box crab, brown king crab

Lopholithodes foraminatus wird umgangssprachlich oft als Königskrabbe bezeichnet.

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Brown Box Crab , Pillar Point 2018

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AphiaID:: 590147

Scientific:: Echidnocerus foraminatus
German:: Braune Königskrabbe
English:: Brown Box Crab, Brown King Crab

Category:: Crabs

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Lithodidae (Family) > Echidnocerus (Genus) > foraminatus (Species)
Initial determination:: Stimpson, 1859

Occurrence:: Alaska (Western Atlantic), Canada Eastern Pacific, Gulf of California, USA
Sea depth:: 8 - 547 Meter
Size:: up to 5.91" (15 cm)
Temperature:: °F - 50 °F (°C - 10°C)
Food:: Carrion, Clams, Detritus, Sea urchins
Difficulty:: Cold water animal
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2018-04-09 19:59:30
Last edit:: 2024-05-05 10:26:27

Info

(Stimpson, 1859)

Echidnocerus foraminatus , commonly known as the brown box crab is a king crab that lives from Kodiak Island, Alaska to San Diego, California.This species is crab is a coald water species.

Synonymised names
Lopholithodes foraminatus (Stimpson, 1859) · unaccepted > superseded combination

External links

inverts.wallawalla.edu (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Juvenile

Echidnocerus foraminatus,Nanaimo, BC, Canada 2024

Commonly

Lopholithodes foraminatus, Brown Box Crab, Pillar Point 2018

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