. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits. Decapoda (Crustacea). A. E. Verrill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 439 Not uncommon at Bermuda and often found on the high sand hills, far away from the shore, and in gardens. Large specimens usually occupy fossil shells of Livona pioa, which have weathered out from the soft jeolian limestones. These fossil shells were doubtless carried, from the shore to the ancient sand dunes by the remote ancestors of these same Figure 55.—Land Hermit Crab in shell of Livona pica, about -3 nat. size. From living specimen by A
. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits. Decapoda (Crustacea). A. E. Verrill—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 439 Not uncommon at Bermuda and often found on the high sand hills, far away from the shore, and in gardens. Large specimens usually occupy fossil shells of Livona pioa, which have weathered out from the soft jeolian limestones. These fossil shells were doubtless carried, from the shore to the ancient sand dunes by the remote ancestors of these same Figure 55.—Land Hermit Crab in shell of Livona pica, about -3 nat. size. From living specimen by A. H. V. Its range is from Florida Keys to Brazil. Key West, Santa Cruz, Dominica I. (Yale Mus.). Andros I. and Nassau (Rankin). Found on nearly all West India Islands. A fossil Bermuda specimen, in a shell of Livona pica, is in the Yale Mus. (coll. Jones). Family PAGTJRIDiE. Hermit Crabs. Calcinus sulcatus (). Stimp. Red Hermit Crab. Pagunis sulcatus , Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 2, vi, p. 279, 1836 ; Hist. nat. Crust., ii, p. 230, 1837. Calcinus sulcatus Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1858, p. 234 S. I. Smith, these Trans., ii, p. 17, 1869 (Brazil). Hilgendorf, Monats Preuss. Abad. Wiss., Berlin, 1878, p. 823. Henderson, Rep. Challenger Z06I., vol. xxvii, Anomura, p. 61. Verrill, these Trans., x, p. 578, 1900 Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. 939, 1893 ; Anom. Porto Eico, p 141, pi. V, figs. 3, 3a, 1901 ( Pagurus tibicen White (variety), List of Crust, in the British Museum, p. 61. Calcinus tibicen Eankin, Ann. N. York Acad., xii, p. 533, pi. xvii, fig. 1, 1900 (descr. colors, etc.). Calcinus obscurus Stone, in Heilprin, op. cit., p. 149 {non Stimpson). Figures 56, 57. Plate XXVIII, Figure 7. The colors appear to be pretty constant, in the Bermuda examples, and last very well in formalin or alcohol. The legs and chelae in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabil
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