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Echidnocerus foraminatus

Synonyms: Lopholithodes foraminatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown box crab, Lopholithodes foraminatus, is a king crab that lives from Kodiak Island, Alaska to San Diego, California. at depths of 0–547 metres (0–1,795 ft). It reaches a carapace length of 150 millimetres (5.9 in), and feeds on bivalves and detritus. It often lies buried in the sediment, and two foramens in the chelipeds allow water in to the gill chamber for respiration. The gill chamber is also sometimes used by the commensal fish Careproctus to hold its eggs.
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Predators

Gadus macrocephalus (Pacific cod)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0