Lithodidae Dromiidae Atelecyclidae Cancridae Pirimelidae Cheiragonidae Dorippidae Eriphiidae Epialtidae Inachidae Oregoniidae Pilumnidae Geryonidae Portunidae Potamidae Panopeidae Xanthidae Grapsidae Images Name list Publications Sites alex@equator.ru Whole checklist По-русски (in Russian) Porcellanidae Varunidae Camptandriidae Macrophthalmidae Pinnotheridae Hapalogastridae Plagusiidae Far East / North Pacific Black Sea Baltic Sea Freshwater crabs Arctic Ocean Designed and composed by Alex Alyakrinsky, 2011 Lithodidae Lithodes maja (Linnaeus, 1758) = Lithodes arctica Latreille, 1806 Arctic Ocean Range. “North Sea to the coasts of Belgium, west coasts of Ireland and Scotland, Barents Sea,  Iceland and Spitzbergen, Greenland, east coast of North America to the Gulf of Maine. The  specimens examined were caught at depths ranging from 4 to 200 m though Williams (1984)  stated that they are usually found between 65 and 790 m.”  Size. “The males examined measured between 13 and 110 mm in carapace length and between  12 and 113 mm in width. The females were between 17 and 97 mm long and between 15 and  95 mm wide. The smallest ovigerous females specimen measured 59 mm in length and 57 mm  in width.”  [Macpherson, 1988, p. 61].