Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Lithodoidea (King crabs) for Gulf of Alaska (Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, USA)

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Checklist for Superfamily Lithodoidea Samouelle, 1819 (King crabs)
and region Gulf of Alaska (Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, USA)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	41 68 99	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	41 68 99	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	18 33 56	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	17 31 54	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	16 30 53	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	5 10 20	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Lithodoidea Samouelle, 1819 King crabs, Stone crabs	2 5 6	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Gulf of Alaska
2 Families width 6 Species

Hapalogastridae Brandt, 1850		2	Species	Taxom
Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819	King crab	4	Species	Taxom

Genera for Gulf of Alaska
5 Genera with 6 Species

Species list for Gulf of Alaska
6 Species

Acantholithodes hispidus Stimpson, 1860	Fuzzy Crab
Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1848	Butterfly crab
Lithodes aequispinus Benedict, 1895	Golden king crab
Lithodes couesi Benedict, 1895	Scarlet king crab
Placetron wosnessenskii Schalfeew, 1892	Scaled crab
Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii Brandt, 1848	Golf-ball crab

Subnodes of Lithodoidea with occurrences in Gulf of Alaska

Family	Hapalogastridae Brandt, 1850	2 2	Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 king crab, King crabs, Stone and king crabs, Stone crabs, stone crabs and king crabs	3 4	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Lithodoidea at itis.gov
Lithodoidea at marinespecies.org