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Crustaceans

Brown Box Crab

Echidnocerus foraminatus

Also known as: Alaska King Crab, Box Crab, Brown King Crab, King Crab, Lithodid Box Crab, Puget Sound Box Crab, Lopholithodes foraminatus

Adult
@fishx6 · Arizona Aquarium, United States · September 20191 / 1
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Overview

Found on, or buried in the substrate, over soft bottoms and rock faces, usually in deep waters.
Widespread Alaska, California, Canada

Box crab are named because of the way they can tuck their legs into their bodies giving the appearance of a neat box. Shame-faced is from the way their claws fold in in front of their face, as if hiding it in shame.

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How to identify

Body shape
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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Northeast Pacific
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Found on, or buried in the substrate, over soft bottoms and rock faces, usually in deep waters.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumArthropoda
    3. classMalacostraca
    4. orderDecapoda
    5. familyLithodidae
    6. genusEchidnocerus
    7. speciesEchidnocerus foraminatus Stimpson, 1859

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    More in the family

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