Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Lithodoidea (King crabs) for Cowichan Valley (British Columbia, Canada)

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Checklist for Superfamily Lithodoidea Samouelle, 1819 (King crabs)
and region Cowichan Valley (British Columbia, Canada)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	38 47 49	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	37 46 49	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	20 24 29	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	20 24 29	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	20 24 29	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	4 4 6	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Lithodoidea Samouelle, 1819 King crabs, Stone crabs	2 2 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cowichan Valley
2 Families width 2 Species

Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819	King crab	1	Species	Taxom
Hapalogastridae Brandt, 1850		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cowichan Valley
2 Genera with 2 Species

Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848		1	Species	Taxom
Placetron Schalfeew, 1892		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cowichan Valley
2 Species

Lopholithodes mandtii Brandt, 1848	Puget Sound king crab
Placetron wosnessenskii Schalfeew, 1892	Scaled crab

Subnodes of Lithodoidea with occurrences in Cowichan Valley

Family	Hapalogastridae Brandt, 1850	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 king crab, King crabs, Stone and king crabs, Stone crabs, stone crabs and king crabs	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Lithodoidea at itis.gov
Lithodoidea at marinespecies.org