. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . 280 MARINE INVERTEBRATES C. antennarius, the rock-crab of the Pacific coast. This speciesof the California coast inhabits rocky bottoms below low-water carapace is three and a half inches long by five or six inches wide,and dark purplish-brown in color. The chelae are marbled with purplishspots and are nearly smooth. The distinguishing features of this crabare its large and hairy antennae, the hirsute margins of its abdomen andwalking-feet, and the numerous hairs on t
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . 280 MARINE INVERTEBRATES C. antennarius, the rock-crab of the Pacific coast. This speciesof the California coast inhabits rocky bottoms below low-water carapace is three and a half inches long by five or six inches wide,and dark purplish-brown in color. The chelae are marbled with purplishspots and are nearly smooth. The distinguishing features of this crabare its large and hairy antennae, the hirsute margins of its abdomen andwalking-feet, and the numerous hairs on the under side of its body. GENUS Menippe M> mercenaria, the stone-crab. This species lives in deep holesin the mud along the borders of creeks and estuaries, and also in crevicesbetween fragments of rock, in stone-heaps and other debris, and is Menippe mercenaria. the stone-crab ; found from South Carolina to Texas. These crabs are edible, and insome localities are hunted for food, one manner of capturing them beingto thrust the hand and arm into their holes and drag them out, an opera-tion attended with danger to the inexperienced hunter, who is likely tobe badly pinched. They are withdrawn with difficulty, as they offer astrong resistance, bracing themselves with their claws against the sidesof their holes, and often hold so firmly to the rocks that they are torn MUD-CRABS 281 apart. They are also taken by a hooked iron which is thrust into thehole; the crab seizes it and is then suddenly jerked from its hole. Theadult measures about three by four and a half inches, and the bodyis from one inch to two inches thick. One of the chelte is larger thanthe other, and both are proportionately enormously large, and are tippedwith black. The terminal joints of the other four pairs of legs arethickly fringed with hairs and end in points which seem like nails. FORMER GE
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