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Its more like a list of facts. Correct and cited but not written in a real article format.
Also-- one side point. The leg span of the larger king crabs is really something. Would add interest to the article especially in the opening sentence.
this thing is a total mess, i can't follow it, and the picture box is too big.
Therefore, I have rewritten it. Stemonitis 13:49, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
this article needs a lot of work. the references to stone crabs is ambiguous. its also very very shy on details and could perhaps use some information on catching king crabs.
Missing key factual information (notably quantification of size for a creature that is notable for its size), and then refers to the relative size of the varieties of king crab. Halsteadk 22:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)Reply
This picture in the upper right corner needs to be replaced. This is not representative of the appearance of king crabs. The one with the woman holding the crab is the real deal. Unschool 19:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
Stemonitis, it's obvious, looking at your user page, that you know a thing or two thousand about crabs. But please help me out here and give a citation on this "stone crab" thing. I worked in the king crab industry for four years, both processing and fishing (more than twenty years ago, admitedly), and never heard this term then or since. And when you say " . . . are called stone crabs by some", you really are (unintentionally, I'm sure) employing weasel words. If you had said that in the article itself, I'd have to delete it. But anyway, could you just give some citations that support the stone crabs thing? Unschool 19:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
The article refers to these creatures having a "large size", but nowhere does it give any quantitative size information! Sorry, but it is this lack of key information that gives Wikipedia a poor image and makes it very unreliable as a source for people to use for research. So I shall have to go elsewhere to find out how big a king crab is! Halsteadk 22:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)Reply
I heard that King Crabs and this article kind of confirms that. Could someone smarter then my self maybe include more information about this and perhaps include a different name for them.Mantion (talk) 21:50, 10 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
I think he means that if the article refers to King Crabs as "crab-like", that raises an issue nowhere addressed. If they are not "true" crabs, why not, and what are they?
I'm no expert, but I believe the "king" crab is not also known as a "stone" crab, but as a "snow" crab. The definition of "stone" crab has them too far south. We eat them in Florida. The shell is far harder than what is called the "snow" crab down here. The so-called "snow" crab resembles what we used to call a "king" crab years ago in New England markets. I'd say king crab and snow crab are different words for the same thing, but not stone crab. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tzurinskas (talk • contribs) 16:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
The horseshoe crab was formerly known as the "king crab" but there is no mention of this in the entry or the entry navigation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.92.79.239 (talk) 16:51, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
My knowledge of Decapoda is small, so I was wondering why there are all these genuses and species of animals without the "supposed" superfamily Lithodoidea. Looking on google books, I am still unclear. Should Lithodoidea be a redirect to this page?
That picture in the info box is awful. If that's a king crab, it's not like any I ever fished. 50.193.171.70 (talk) 15:20, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
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