Oedignathus | |
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Oedignathus inermis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Lithodidae |
Genus: | Oedignathus Benedict, 1895 [2] |
Species: | O. inermis
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Binomial name | |
Oedignathus inermis | |
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Oedignathus inermis is a species of king crab found off the Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada, from California[4] to Alaska,[5] and disjunctly around the coasts of Japan.[6] It is the only species in the genus Oedignathus, and is sometimes called the granular claw crab,[1] paxillose crab,[7] or tuberculate nestling lithode crab.[8]