Oedignathus

Oedignathus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Anomura
Family:
Lithodidae
Genus:
Oedignathus

Benedict, 1895 [1]
Species:
O. inermis
Binomial name
Oedignathus inermis
(Stimpson, 1860) [2]

Oedignathus inermis is a species of king crab found off the Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada, from California[3] to Alaska,[4] and disjunctly around the coasts of Japan.[5] It is the only species in the genus Oedignathus, and is sometimes called the granular claw crab,[2] paxillose crab,[6] or tuberculate nestling lithode crab.[7]

  1. ^ "Oedignathus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ a b "Oedignathus inermis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. ^ MacGintie, G. E. (1937). "Notes on the natural history of several marine crustacea". American Midland Naturalist. 18 (6). The University of Notre Dame: 1031–1037. doi:10.2307/2420601. JSTOR 2420601.
  4. ^ "Oedignathus inermis (Stimpson, 1860)". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2007-08-16.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Petryashev, V. V. (January 2005). "Biogeographical division of the North Pacific sublittoral and upper bathyal zones by the fauna of Mysidacea and Anomura (Crustacea)". Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 31 (Supplement 1): S9–S26. doi:10.1007/s11179-006-0011-7. S2CID 1769205.
  6. ^ Stevens, Bradley G. (8 October 2021). "A Checklist of Alaskan Crabs" (PDF). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.[dead link]
  7. ^ "British Columbia Estuary Mapping System". Integrated Land Management Bureau, Province of British Columbia. March 1999. Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2007-08-16.