Archive image from page 148 of Decapod crustacea of Bermuda (1908-1922). Decapod crustacea of Bermuda decapodcrustacea00verr Year: 1908-1922 .4. E. VcrriU—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 439 Not uncommon at Bermuda ami often found on the high sand hills, far a\vav from the shore, and in gardens. Large specimens usually occupy fossil shells of Lr<»/ica, which have weathered out fnmi ihe soft jvoliau limestones. These fossil shells were doubtless carried from the shore to the ancient sand dunes by the remote ancestors of these same crabs. Figure 55.—Land Hermit Crab in shell of Lii-ona pic
Archive image from page 148 of Decapod crustacea of Bermuda (1908-1922). Decapod crustacea of Bermuda decapodcrustacea00verr Year: 1908-1922 .4. E. VcrriU—Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 439 Not uncommon at Bermuda ami often found on the high sand hills, far a\vav from the shore, and in gardens. Large specimens usually occupy fossil shells of Lr<»/ica, which have weathered out fnmi ihe soft jvoliau limestones. These fossil shells were doubtless carried from the shore to the ancient sand dunes by the remote ancestors of these same crabs. Figure 55.—Land Hermit Crab in shell of Lii-ona pica, about 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 PAGUIIID2E. Hermit Crabs. Calcinus sulcatus (). Sfcimp. Red Hermit Crab. Pi-Kjnrns sulcatus , Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 2, vi, p. 279, 1836 ; Hist. nat. Crust., ii, p. 230, 1837. Calcinus sulcatus Stiinpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1858, p. 234. S. I. Smith, these Trans., ii, p. 17, 1869 (Brazil). Hilgendorf, Monats. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1878, p. 823. Henderson, Rep. Challenger, Zool., 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, 3«, 1901 (descr.). /Vf;/.i,'. iil,;,;-,i White (varieti/), List of Crust, in the British Museum, p. 61. Calcinus tibicen Rankin, Ann. N. York Acad., xii, p. 533, pi. xvii, fig. 1, 1900 (descr. colors, etc.). <-nil-inns obscurus Stoue, 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 cliche in
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