Archive image from page 132 of Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda Their. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits decapodcrustacea1908verr Year: 1908 A. E. YerrUl—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 429 It appears to be nearly allied to Hapalocarcinus marsupiaiis Stimp- son. which forms cnrions ' houses ' among the branches of P'JcUJo- pora C'.rspirosa. The branches of the coral, in the latter case, grow- up around the crab and enclose it, leaving several small apertures for the entrance of water and food, but from which the crab cannot emerge. In the latter, however, the
Archive image from page 132 of Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda Their. Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. Their distribution, variations, and habits decapodcrustacea1908verr Year: 1908 A. E. YerrUl—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 429 It appears to be nearly allied to Hapalocarcinus marsupiaiis Stimp- son. which forms cnrions ' houses ' among the branches of P'JcUJo- pora C'.rspirosa. The branches of the coral, in the latter case, grow- up around the crab and enclose it, leaving several small apertures for the entrance of water and food, but from which the crab cannot emerge. In the latter, however, the front of the carapace is flat, not bent downward, and it does not serve for an operculum, which is not needed in its case. Figure-49.—Tri>gl'> t':'i\ii'.ic-jt-i ; a. dorsal view. ai»iit-i times, of a 5 remoTed from its den in a coral iilussa). from Dominica L; b. a smaller 5 specimen, x abont -i times, ventral view: the abdomen, legs, enter mai- illipeds. and antenunles are removed, except one basal antennnlax segment; c, the same, another £ example : dorsal view, x 4. Phot. A. H. V. It is, perhaps, more closely allied to Cryptochirus coralUodytes Heller,f from the Re<i Sea and laldives, which lives in the same manner, in dens in Leptoria {Jfcsandra). The latter, however, has a differently formed carapace, smooth, convex in front, without marginal spines ; orbits simple, without spines ; and very different maxillipeds. Proe. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vi, p. 412, 1859. Caiman, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2. vol. viii. p. 43, pL iii, figs. 29-40, 1900. il. J. Bathbnn. Crust. Hawaiian U. S. Fish Com. BulletiQ, for 1903. part iii, p. 892, 1906. I HeUer. Cam., Sitzungsb. Classe. Akad. Wissenschaften, Wien. xliii, i, 1861. p. 366, pi. iv, figs. 33-39.
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