Rhinolithodes
| Rhinolithodes | |
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| File:Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii, USA.jpg | |
| Rhinoceros crab | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Lithodidae |
| Genus: | Rhinolithodes |
| Species: | R. wosnessenskii
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii | |
Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii, also called the rhinoceros crab, is a species of king crab, the only species in the genus Rhinolithodes.[2][3] The species is named after Ilya Gavrilovich Voznesenski.[4] It is found at depths of 6–73 metres (20–240 ft) in the north-east Pacific Ocean from Kodiak, Alaska to Crescent City, California.[5][6]
R. wosnessenskii grows to 7 centimetres (2.8 in) across the carapace, which is triangular and has a deep semicircular depression. The legs are covered in spines and long setae. It lives in crevices on rocky or gravel bottoms, and is only rarely encountered.[6] Rhinolithodes is likely a sister genus to Phyllolithodes.[7]
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- King crabs
- Monotypic decapod genera
- Fauna of California
- Crustaceans of the United States
- Crustaceans of Canada
- Fauna of British Columbia
- Fauna of Yukon
- Fauna of Alaska
- Crustaceans of the eastern Pacific Ocean
- Anomura of the Pacific Ocean
- Crustaceans described in 1848
- Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt
- Anomura stubs