| Rhinolithodes | |
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| Rhinoceros crab | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 or golf-ball crab,[2] is a species of king crab, the only species in the genus Rhinolithodes. The species is named after Ilya Gavrilovich Voznesenski.[3] 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.[4][5]
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.[5] Rhinolithodes is likely a sister genus to Phyllolithodes.[6]
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- ^ Hans G. Hansson. "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Göteborg University. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
- ^ V. V. Petryashev (2005). "Biogeographical division of the North Pacific sublittoral and upper bathyal zones by the fauna of Mysidacea and Anomura (Crustacea)". Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 31 (Supplement 1): S9–S26. doi:10.1007/s11179-006-0011-7. S2CID 1769205.
- ^ a b Dave Cowles (2004). "Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii Brandt, 1849". Walla Walla University. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
- ^ Noever, Christoph; Glenner, Henrik (2017-07-05). "The origin of king crabs: hermit crab ancestry under the magnifying glass" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 182 (2): 300–318. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx033. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-16 – via the University of Copenhagen.