The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . irroratus, PI. 6, Fig. 1), the common trans-verse species, whose empty ^boxes are to be foundat almost all times on the beach. In this species,which can be readily recognized by the nine bluntteeth projecting from each side of the anterior edgeof the carapace, they are merely pointed blades, butin the soft-shell, the edible form, they are flattenedout into paddles-, forming efiicient swimming soft-shell (Callinccies hasiatus) is thus the typeof a group of swimming c
The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . irroratus, PI. 6, Fig. 1), the common trans-verse species, whose empty ^boxes are to be foundat almost all times on the beach. In this species,which can be readily recognized by the nine bluntteeth projecting from each side of the anterior edgeof the carapace, they are merely pointed blades, butin the soft-shell, the edible form, they are flattenedout into paddles-, forming efiicient swimming soft-shell (Callinccies hasiatus) is thus the typeof a group of swimming crabs, of which the beau-tiful ladys crab (PlaUjonichus ocellatus, PI. 6,Fig. 5) is another representative. It is not to beassumed that these swimmers constantly float on 8 86 OUR CARCINOLOGICAL FRIENDS. the ambient waters, for they appear to delight inthe mud-flats as much as the other species; butthey possess, in the art of swimming, one advan-tage over their fellows. When the embryo crab escapes from the Qgg itis liberated in the form of a very remarkable littlebody known as the Zoea, whose real nature was for.
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