• Lithodes Latreille, P.A. 1806. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in famlias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimus explicita. Paris : König Vol. 1 xviii 302 pp. pls 1–16. [39] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer maja Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Pseudolithodes Birstein & Vinogradov, 1972.

  Type species:

   Pseudolithodes zenkevitchi Birstein & Vinogradov, 1972 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Macquarie Island Province (24), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southwest Transition (7), West Tasmania Transition (9)

General References

Dawson, E.W. 1989. King crabs of the world (Crustacea: Lithodidae) and their fisheries. A comprehensive bibliography. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Miscellaneous Publication 101: 1-336 [317] (list of species and their distributions)

History of changes

• Lithodes australiensis Ahyong, S.T. 2010. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 123: 3-194 [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P35607 ♂ (1065 m depth), East off Brush island, NSW, Australia [35°30'S, 150°52'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Deep water, marine.

History of changes

• Lithodes chaddertoni Ahyong, S.T. 2010. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 123: 3-194 [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMNZ Cr11193 ♂, Broken Ridge, Indian Ocean, off SW Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

History of changes

• Lithodes longispina Sakai, T. 1971. Illustrations of 15 species of crabs of the family Lithodidae, two of which are new to science. Researches on Crustacea 4–5: 1-49 pls 1-26 [11 figs 2a,b, pls 4, 10, 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype KPMNH NH109003 ♂, off Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
  Paratype(s) OCMT ♀ (as allotype), off Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan; KPMNH NH 109044; KPMNH NH 109049.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific (Japan, Guam, New Caledonia, New Zealand).

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, oceanic province.

Extra Ecological Information

From 600–865 m depth.

General References

Dawson, E.W. & Yaldwyn, J.C. 1985. King crabs of the world or the world of king crabs: an overview of identity and distribution — with illustrated diagnostic keys to the genera of the Lithodidae and to the species of Lithodes. pp. 69-106 in Alaska Sea Grant College Program. Proceedings of the International King Crab Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A. January 22–24, 1985. Alaska Sea Grant Report 85–12 [November 1985] [101] (Australian distribution)

History of changes

• Lithodes macquariae Ahyong, S.T. 2010. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 123: 3-194 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P42530 ♂, off Garden Cove, Macquarie Island [54°30’S, 158°57’E].

  Type locality references:

  Ahyong, S.T. 2010. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 123: 3-194 [48].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Macquarie Ridge to Solander Trough and Campbell Plateau, New Zealand

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, oceanic province.

Extra Ecological Information

From 120–705 m depth.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1941. Decapod Crustacea. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1928–31 4(9): 257-285 figs [272] (record from Macquarie Island)

History of changes

• Lithodes rachelae Ahyong, S.T. 2010. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 123: 3-194 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C6357 ♂ (930-1087 m depth), Great Australian Bight, approx. 120 nautical miles SSE of Eucla, South Australia [33°37.2'S, 129°52.0'E].
  Paratype(s) SAMA C6853 ♀ (1500 m depth), SE of Albany, Western Australia; SAMA C6367 ♂, Great Australian Bight, approx. 222 km SSE of Eucla, South Australia.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Between 930-1500 m depth

History of changes

• Lithodes richeri Macpherson, E. 1990. Crustacea Decapoda: On a collection of Nephropidae from the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. pp. 289-329 figs 1-17 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 6. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 145(A): 1-388 [219-221, figs 1a, 2b].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Pg4269 ♂, New Caledonia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Vanuatu, Lifou, Indonesia, New Caledonia and eastern Australia (Queensland - NSW)

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope.

History of changes