Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- And Sessile-Eyed Crustacea (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: small teeth above. Carpus of the second and third legs with a minute acute spine at the distal end of its upper border. Ambulatory legs with a few scattered fasciculi of hairs. In specimens preserved in spirits the chelipedes (with the exception of the fingers and the carpus of the ambulatory legs) are green; the fingers are colourless; the propodos of the ambulatory legs is light dull red; the basal portion of the dactylus dark purple, the distal portion light yellow with a black tip. The rest of the surface is washed with light brown and olive. Length about one inch. Claremont Islands, Queensland coast, on cftral reef (W. A. H., H. M. S. Alert.) Genus Clibanabias, Dana. Anterior feet sub-equal. Fingers moving in a horizontal plane, corneous at tips, spoon-excavate. Front having a small mesial tooth as a rostrum. Z.] 300. Clibanarius striolatus. A. M. Clibanarius striolatus, Dana, U. S. Explor. Exped., Crust., i., p. 463. Anterior region of the carapace nearly quadrate. Eyes slender, about as long as the anterior margin of the carapace, basal scale narrow, bidentate at apex. Anterior feet sub-equal. Hands short and, with the carpus, spinituberculate above and pilose, the left in the male slightly the larger. Feet of second and third pairs short hirsute in tufts on the upper and lower sides, tarsus subterete, as long as the preceding joint, fifth joint, left side, of third pair slightly convex and having a right-angled edge above. -D.] A specimen oB a Clibanarius from Holborn Island, Port Denison, Queensland, agrees tolerably well with Dana's description and figure of C. striolatus, but the spines on the hand and carpus are longer, and the ophthalmic scale has not quite the shape represented in the figure. Family CENOITID