. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 44 T1IKEE CRUISES OF THE " ; genus is closely allied to our lobster : its species have very small and colorless Fig. 240.—Nephropsis Agassizji. |. (S. I. Smith.) Phoberus ccecus (Fig. 241), taken in 416 fathoms off Gre- nada, is a gigantic crustacean, combining, according to Milne- Edwards, characters of several families of macrurans. It is as large as a lobster, the carapace in one specimen being seven inches in length; and the whole animal, from the end of the tail to the tip of the o
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 44 T1IKEE CRUISES OF THE " ; genus is closely allied to our lobster : its species have very small and colorless Fig. 240.—Nephropsis Agassizji. |. (S. I. Smith.) Phoberus ccecus (Fig. 241), taken in 416 fathoms off Gre- nada, is a gigantic crustacean, combining, according to Milne- Edwards, characters of several families of macrurans. It is as large as a lobster, the carapace in one specimen being seven inches in length; and the whole animal, from the end of the tail to the tip of the outstretched claws, is twenty-eight inches, while the claw alone is eight inches. The eyes are rudimentary, and do not project beyond the carapace. It is difficult to draw any conclusions from the great diversity presented by the conditions of the organs of sight in the crus- taceans. Even among allied species we find that some are blind, while others have well-developed organs of vision ; in one group the eyestalks are flexible, while they are rigid in the next. One cannot help being struck with the fact that a comparatively small number of deep-sea crustaceans have lost their eyes. Glyphocrangon (Fig. 242) represents a new family, of which several species were taken both in the West Indian region and off the Atlantic coast of the United States in 250 to 1,200 fathoms ; these very characteristic deep-water forms are all large and shrimp-like, with massive, highly sculptured, spiny, and tuber- culose integument. The carapace, owing to a peculiar articula-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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