Echidnocerus

{{Short description|Genus of king crabs}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| image = Echidnocerus cibarius.jpg

| image_caption = Echidnocerus cibarius

| taxon = Echidnocerus

| authority = White, 1842

| type_species = Echidnocerus cibarius

| type_species_authority = White, 1842

| synonyms =

{{Species list

| Ctenorhinus | Gibbons, 1854

| Echinocerus | White, 1848

| Lopholithodes | Brandt, 1848

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| synonyms_ref = {{cite WoRMS|last=Ahyong|first=Shane T.|author-link=Shane T. Ahyong|date=12 December 2023|title=Echidnocerus White, 1842|id=1550522|access-date=21 October 2024}}

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Echidnocerus is a genus of king crab. It includes Echidnocerus foraminatus (the brown box crab) and Echidnocerus cibarius, the Puget Sound king crab.{{cite journal|author=Patsy A. McLaughlin|author2=Tomoyuki Komai|author3=Rafael Lemaitre|author4=Dwi Listyo Rahayu|name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |editor1=Martyn E. Y. Low |editor2=S. H. Tan |title=Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea |journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=Suppl. 23 |pages=5–107 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz005-107.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122104557/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz005-107.pdf |archivedate=2012-01-22 }}{{ITIS |id=97949 |taxon=Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848 |accessdate=October 25, 2011}}{{cite journal|last1=de Grave|first1=Sammy|last2=Ahyong|first2=Shane T.|author-link2=Shane T. Ahyong|title=Echidnocerus White, 1842, an overlooked senior synonym of Lopholithodes Brandt, 1848 (Decapoda, Lithodidae)|journal=Crustaceana|date=2022 |volume=95|issue=7|pages=861–865|doi=10.1163/15685403-bja10223|bibcode=2022Crust..95..861D }} The genus was long known as Lopholithodes until it was discovered in 2022 that Lopholithodes is a junior synonym of Echidnocerus.