Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Kingdom Eubrachyura > Kingdom Heterotremata > Superfamily Majoidea > Family Oregoniidae > Genus Chionoecetes

Chionoecetes opilio (O. Fabricius, 1788)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chionoecetes*	Krøyer, 1838	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): snøkrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: queen crab; snow crab sources: Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.

Norwegian: snøkrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: snøkrabbe sources: Conspectus Crustaceorum groenlandiae. Naturh. Tids

Norwegian Nynorsk: snøkrabbe sources: Conspectus Crustaceorum groenlandiae. Naturh. Tids

Nynorsk (Norwegian): snøkrabbe

Literature

basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Pohle, G.W. 1990. A guide to decapod Crustacea from the Canadian Atlantic: Anomura and Brachyura. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 1771. 29 p.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (123 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications)
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
GenBank (87 nucleotides; 48 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Davie, P. (2014). Chionoecetes opilio (O. Fabricius, 1788). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107315