Kiwa tyleri

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title: Kiwa tyleri
text: Kiwa tyleri, the Hoff crab, is a species of deep-sea squat lobster in the family Kiwaidae, which lives on hydrothermal vents near Antarctica. The crustacean was given its English nickname in 2010 by UK deep-sea scientists aboard the RRS James Cook, owing to resemblance between its dense covering of setae on the ventral surface of the exoskeleton and the hairy chest of the actor David Hasselhoff. The 2010 expedition to explore hydrothermal vents on the East Scotia Ridge was the second of three ex
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Species of crustacean
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwa_tyleri
date created: 2012-05-12T22:41:36Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T01:35:12Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Close_up_of_Hoff_crab_carapace.jpg","width":2050,"height":2733}
fields total: 13
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