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iHairy stone crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Subclass: Crustacea Order: Decapoda Infraorder: Anomura Superfamily: Lomisoidea Bouvier, 1895 Family: Lomisidae <ref>The name Lomidae may also be encountered.</ref> Bouvier, 1895 Genus: Lomis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 Species: L. hirta
Binomial name
Lomis hirta (Lamarck, 1818)

The hairy stone crab, Lomis hirta, is a crab-like crustacean that lives in the littoral zone of southern Australia from Bunbury, Western Australia to the Bass Strait <ref>Keith Davey. Species bank: Lomis hirta. Department of the Environment and Heritage. Retrieved on 2006-08-15.</ref>. It is the only species in its family. It is slow-moving and covered in brown hair which camouflages it against the rocks it lives upon <ref>Hairy Stone Crab. Museum Victoria (1996).</ref>.

There has been some controversy about the relationship between Lomis hirta and the other anomuran families. Candidates for its closest relatives have included hermit crabs <ref>Dixon, C. J., F. R. Schram & S. T. Ahyong (2004). A new hypothesis of decapod phylogeny. Crustaceana 76 (8): 935–975.</ref>, specifically king crabs <ref>Martin, J. W. & L. G. Abele (1986). Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae), with comments on anomuran phylogeny. Journal of Crustacean Biology 6 (3): 576–616..</ref>, and Aegla <ref>Morrison, C. L., A. W. Harvey, S. Lavery, K. Tieu, Y. Huang & C. W. Cunningham (2001). Mitochondrial gene rearrangements confirm the parallel evolution of the crab-like form. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 345–350.</ref><ref>Porter, M. L., M. Pérez-Losada & K. A. Crandall (2005). Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence times. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 355–369.</ref>. It is clear, however, that Lomis represents a separate case of carcinisation.

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