Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Lithodoidea (King crabs) for Victoria (East Australia, Australia)

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Checklist for Superfamily Lithodoidea Samouelle, 1819 (King crabs)
and region Victoria (East Australia, Australia)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	253 830 1509	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	251 825 1501	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	92 297 524	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	91 296 523	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	86 286 512	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	14 40 79	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Lithodoidea Samouelle, 1819 King crabs, Stone crabs	2 5 7	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Victoria
2 Families width 7 Species

Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819	King crab	6	Species	Taxom
Hapalogastridae Brandt, 1850		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Victoria
5 Genera with 7 Species

Species list for Victoria
7 Species

Cryptolithodes sitchensis Brandt, 1853	Sitka crab
Cryptolithodes typicus Brandt, 1848	Butterfly crab
Hapalogaster mertensii Brandt, 1850	Hairy crab
Lopholithodes foraminatus Stimpson, 1859	Brown box crab
Lopholithodes mandtii Brandt, 1848	Puget Sound king crab
Phyllolithodes papillosus Brandt, 1848	Flatspine triangle crab
Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii Brandt, 1848	Golf-ball crab

Subnodes of Lithodoidea with occurrences in Victoria

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	4 6	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Lithodoidea at itis.gov
Lithodoidea at marinespecies.org