. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . rab. This species of spider-crab is foundfrom Greenland to New Jersey, in shallow as well as in deep water. Itsbody resembles strongly, both in form and size, that of a toad, hence itscommon name. It forms an important part of the food of the cod. H. lyratus. A toad-crab of the Pacific coast, ranging from BeringSea to Puget Sound ; named from the lyre-shape of its carapace. H. (titnitiis. A species which especially resembles a toad in itsform. Found off the northern New Englan
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . rab. This species of spider-crab is foundfrom Greenland to New Jersey, in shallow as well as in deep water. Itsbody resembles strongly, both in form and size, that of a toad, hence itscommon name. It forms an important part of the food of the cod. H. lyratus. A toad-crab of the Pacific coast, ranging from BeringSea to Puget Sound ; named from the lyre-shape of its carapace. H. (titnitiis. A species which especially resembles a toad in itsform. Found off the northern New England coast. (Plate LXIII.) GENUS Loxorhynchus L. frisjfftfiis, the sheep-crab. This crab occurs on the coast of south-ern California. The body is thick and about three inches across thewidest portion, and tapers to a long, prominent rostrum. It is coveredwith long tubercles and spines and with short, bristly hairs; the legsare long, the chelipeds stretching fully two feet. GENUS fiigettia P. fffficilis. A small spider-crab found on the Pacific coast fromAlaska to Puget Sound. Its body is one half of an inch wide and. , /n-ii, I in-ill.^ tin kelp-crab ; female. 286 MARINE INVERTEBRATES one inch long, with prominent spines on the sides of the carapace, whichnarrows in front into a long beak ending in two spines. It is red andgreen above, red beneath. (Plate LXIII.) GENUS Sternorhynchus S. Sagittarius. This is one of the most delicately formed of the spider-crabs. The body has narrow longitudinal stripes of light and dark lives offshore from Cape Hatteras southward. GENUS Epialtns E. productus, the kelp-crab. This crab inhabits the coasts of Cali-fornia and Oregon, and is found among seaweeds on rocks just belowlow-water mark. The carapace is smooth, is quadrate in form, is abouttwo inches long and broad, has two spines on each side, and has a promi-nent denticulated rostrum. This is the most common spider-crab of thePacific (California) coast. It is olive-green, thus
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