Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Anomura
Superfamilia: Paguroidea
Familia: Lithodidae
Genus: Lithodes
Species: L. aequispina - L. aotearoa - L. australiensis - L. ceramensis - L. chaddertoni - L. confundens - L. couesi - L. ferox - L. formosae - L. galapagensis - L. jessica - L. longispina - L. macquariae - L. maja - L. mamillifer - L. manningi - L. megacantha - L. murrayi - L. nintokuae - L. panamensis - L. paulayi - L. rachelae - L. richeri - L. robertsoni - L. santolla - L. turkayi - L. turritus - L. unicornis - L. wiracocha
[source: Ahyong (2010: 15-16)]

Name

Lithodes Latreille, 1806
Gender: masculine
Type species: Cancer maja Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

Pseudolithodes Birstein & Vinogradov, 1972
Gender: masculine
Type species: Pseudolithodes zenkevitchi Birstein & Vinogradov, 1972 [=santolla Molina, 1782]

References
cited sources

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)

additional references

Ahyong, S.T.; Chan, T.-y. 2010: Lithodes formosae, a new species of king crab from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). Zootaxa, 2332: 61–68. Preview
Hall, S.; Thatje, S. 2009: Four new species of the family Lithodidae (Decapoda: Anomura) from the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Zootaxa, 2302: 31-47. Abstract & excerpt
MacPherson, E.; Chan, T-y. 2008: Some lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from Taiwan and adjacent waters, with the description of one new species from Guam. Zootaxa, 1924: 43-52. Abstract & excerpt
Takeda & Nagai 2004: Four species of giant crustaceans from the Indonesian depths, with description of a new species of the family Lithodidae. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A), 30: 9-21.

links

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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Türkay, M. (2009). Lithodes Latreille, 1806. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106845 on 2010-08-11 [NEEDS REVISION! Stho002 (talk) 07:14, 20 August 2010 (UTC)]