Its two claws are very different in because size, are elongated, and bear many long teeth on the inner surface.

Dinochelus ausubeli has a carapace length of around 31 millimetres (1.2 in), and is in life mostly translucent white, with reddish pink colouring near the middle of the carapace, on the tail fan, on the antennae, and on the first pereiopods (including the claws).

Dinochelus ausubeli is only known from its type locality, 15°56′N 121°45′E / 15.933°N 121.750°E / 15.933; 121.750, off the coast of Luzon in the Philippines.

[1] It was found by trawling at a depth of around 250 metres (820 ft) in 2007,[1] as part of the Census of Marine Life, a major effort to document marine life in the first decade of the 21st century.

[1] Dinochelus belongs to a group of lobsters previously recognised as the separate family, Thaumastochelidae, which also includes the genera Thaumastocheles and Thaumastochelopsis.