The Dungeness crab { Cancer magister } is named after a small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Dungeness, Washington, is located approximately five miles north of Sequim and 15 miles east of Port Angeles.

The Dungeness crab can be harvested from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Point Conception, California.

Red king crab can be found throughout the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Gulf of Alaska, Sea of Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka shelf. King crab molt multiple times per year through age 3 after which molting is annual. At larger sizes, king crab may skip molt as growth slows.