Tags: Crustacean.

The Puget Sound King crab Lopholithodes mandtii is a species of king crab which lives in the oceans off the Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to central California. Adults are orange red and purple in colour. They are larger than the similar brown box crab.

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binomial authority
Johann Friedrich von Brandt
class
Malacostraca
family
King crab
genus
Lopholithodes
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Anomura
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean

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