Lithodes unicornis is a species of king crab.[1] It lives at the muddy bottoms of an oceanic plateau in the southern Atlantic Ocean's Walvis Ridge known as the Valdivia Bank, residing at a depth of about 935 m (3,068 ft).[2]
Appearance
L. unicornis is cream-coloured with pinkish-tinged walking legs and carapace, darker pinkish spines and dactyli, and yellowish setae which grow from its fingers.[2] It has a pentagonal carapace which has been measured in males to be as long as 129 mm (5.1 in) and as wide as 124 mm (4.9 in).[2] It is morphologically similar to L. murrayi, but it has a visibly thinner central rostral spine.[2]
