Biology:Rhinolithodes
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Short description: Genus of crustaceans
| 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 Brandt, 1848 [1]
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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]
References
- ↑ "Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=97957. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
- ↑ "Golf-ball crab". nicolaoutdoors.com. August 1, 2004. http://nicolaoutdoors.com/diving/arthropoda/pages/DSCN2132.htm.
- ↑ Hans G. Hansson. "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Göteborg University. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.vw.html. 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dave Cowles (2004). "Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii Brandt, 1849". Walla Walla University. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927214252/http://rosario.wwc.edu/inverts/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Malacostraca/Eumalacostraca/Eucarida/Decapoda/Anomura/Family_Lithodidae/Rhinolithodes_wosnessenskii.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q3933129 entry
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