Paralithodes platypus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Lithodidae |
Genus: | Paralithodes |
Species: | P. platypus
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Binomial name | |
Paralithodes platypus | |
Distribution in the Bering Sea region (not showing population further south off northeast Asia) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Lithodes platypus J.F. Brandt in von Middendorf, 1851 |
Paralithodes platypus, the blue king crab,[2] is a species of king crab from cold waters in the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas.[3] They are generally smaller than red king crabs.[4]
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