Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Anomura > Superfamily Lithodoidea > Family Lithodidae > Genus Paralithodes

Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paralithodes*	Brandt, 1848	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Paralithodes camtschatica*	(Tilesius, 1815)	orthographic variant
*Paralithodes camtschatica*	(Tilesius, 1815)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: red king crab

Literature

basis of record	Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453
additional source	McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Komai, Tomoyuki; Lemaitre, Rafael; Listyo Rahayu, Dwi. (2010). 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. Supplement No. 23: 5-107

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (178 nucleotides; 148 proteins)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Ahyong, S. (2014). Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:233889