Rhinolithodes

Taxobox | name = "Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
familia = Lithodidae
genus = "Rhinolithodes"
species = "R. wosnessenskii"
binomial = "Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii"
binomial_authority = Brandt, 1848 [ITIS|ID=97957|taxon="Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii"]

"Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii", also called the "rhinoceros crab" or "golf-ball crab" [cite web |url=http://www.champagnescience.com/diving/arthropoda/pages/GolfballCrab1.htm |title=Golf-ball crab |publisher=champagnescience.com |date=2004-08-01] , is a species of king crab, the only species in the genus "Rhinolithodes". The species is named after Ilya Gabrilovic Voznesenski [cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.vw.html |title=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |publisher=Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Göteborg University |author=Hans G. Hansson |accessdate=2007-08-17] . It is found at depths of 6–73 m in the north-east Pacific Ocean from Kodiak, Alaska to Crescent City, California [cite journal |quotes=no |title=Biogeographical division of the North Pacific sublittoral and upper bathyal zones by the fauna of Mysidacea and Anomura (Crustacea) |journal=Russian Journal of Marine Biology |author=V. V. Petryashev |volume=31 |issue=Supplement 1 |year=2005 |pages=S9–S26 |doi=10.1007/s11179-006-0011-7] cite web |url=http://rosario.wwc.edu/inverts/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Malacostraca/Eumalacostraca/Eucarida/Decapoda/Anomura/Family_Lithodidae/Rhinolithodes_wosnessenskii.html |title="Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii" Brandt, 1849 |author=Dave Cowles |year=2004 |publisher=Walla Walla University] .

"R. wosnessenskii" grows to 7 cm 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 .

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