Chionoecetes, KROYER, 1838
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GENUS CHIONOECETES KRÖYER, 1838 View in CoL CHIONOECETES BAIRDI RATHBUN, 1924
Type locality: North Pacific Ocean, Canada, British Columbia, head of Kingcombe Inlet .
Known range: south-eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands , eastward and southward to British Columbia ( Rathbun, 1924) and Oregon, and the coasts of Hokkaido, Japan and west coast of Kamchatka peninsula, from 6 to 474 m, usually on soft mud or sand .
Occurrence at vents or seeps: Seeps in Monterey Canyon (see below).
Material: Type locality: USNM 5862 About USNM (holotype, male). We know of no material collected from vent or seep localities .
Remarks: Barry et al. (1996) reported two ‘majid’ crabs from seeps in the vicinity of Monterey Canyon, California; one was Chionoecetes bairdi Rathbun, 1924 (now considered a member of the family Oregoniidae ), the well-known and commercially fished ‘tanner’ crab more common to the north, and the other was Chorilia longipes Dana, 1851 (now treated as a member of the Pisidae following Martin & Davis, 2001).
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