''Cryptomaster behemoth'' is an opilionid arachnid inhabiting large woody debris and

bark Bark may refer to: * Bark (botany), an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick * Bark (sound), a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog) Places * Bark, Germany * Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland Arts, ...

microhabitat in mature

coniferous Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida. All extant ...

or mixed coniferous and

hardwood Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from ...

forests of the central Cascade Mountains of Oregon, with all initially discovered localities in Lane County. As with the species name of the other species in the genus, '' C. leviathan'', the specific epithet "''

behemoth Behemoth (; he, בְּהֵמוֹת, ''bəhēmōṯ'') is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster, Leviathan, and ...

''" is derived from the name in the Hebrew language of a large beast mentioned in the Biblical

Book of Job The Book of Job (; hbo, אִיּוֹב, ʾIyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and is the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Scholars ar ...

, referencing ''C. behemoths large body size compared to most travunioid Laniatores. Even though of relatively large size, '' Cryptomaster'' species are difficult to find, hence the genus name suggesting that they are masters at staying hidden.

References

Harvestmen Animals described in 2016 Endemic fauna of Oregon {{Opiliones-stub