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King crabs or stone crabs are marine decapod crustaceans of the family Lithodidae[b] that are found chiefly in deep waters and are adapted to cold environments.[3][4] They are composed of two subfamilies: Lithodinae, which tend to inhabit deep waters, are globally distributed, and comprise the majority of the family's species diversity;[4][5] and Hapalogastrinae, which are endemic to the North Pacific and inhabit exclusively shallow waters.[4] King crabs superficially resemble true crabs but are generally understood to be closest to the pagurid hermit crabs.[6][5] This placement of king crabs among the hermit crabs is supported by several anatomical peculiarities which are present only in king crabs and hermit crabs, making them a prominent example of carcinisation among decapods.[7] Several species of king crabs, especially in Alaskan and southern South American waters, are targeted by commercial fisheries and have been subject to overfishing.[3][8][9] Taxonomy King crabs are believed to have originated during the Early Miocene in shallow North Pacific waters, where most genera – including all Hapalogastrinae – are distributed and where they exhibit a high amount of morphological diversity.[5][10] Since the late 1800s, carcinologists have suspected that king crabs are hermit crabs who underwent secondary calcification and left their shell.[5] The king crab family Lithodidae was created and placed among the true crabs in 1819 by zoologist George Samouelle to hold the then-recently-described genus Lithodes.[1] In 2007, examining the monophyly of the decapod infraorder Anomura, carcinologist Patsy McLaughlin and colleagues moved the king crabs from their classification within the hermit crab superfamily Paguroidea into a separate superfamily, Lithodoidea.[11][2] They furthermore found Lithodoidea to be a sister clade to the mole crab superfamily Hippoidea.[11] This was controversial, as there is strong phylogenetic evidence that king crabs are derived from hermit crabs and closely related to pagurid hermit crabs.[7][12][13] In 2023, king crabs were folded back into Paguroidea, with Lithodoidea being considered superseded.[6] The king crabs' relationship to other hermit crabs, as well as the family's internal phylogeny, can be seen in the following two cladograms