Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii, also called the rhinoceros crab, is a species of king crab, the only species in the genus Rhinolithodes. The species is named after Ilya Gavrilovich Voznesenski. It is found at depths of in the north-east Pacific Ocean from Kodiak, Alaska to Crescent City, California.
Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii, also called the rhinoceros crab, is a species of king crab, the only species in the genus Rhinolithodes. The species is named after Ilya Gavrilovich Voznesenski. It is found at depths of in the north-east Pacific Ocean from Kodiak, Alaska to Crescent City, California.
R. wosnessenskii grows to 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. Rhinolithodes is likely a sister genus to Phyllolithodes.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).