Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Identifier: bulletinunitedst1521930unit (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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THE CANCROID CRABS OF AMERICA 327 LOPHOPANOPEUS DIEGENSIS Rathbun Plate 153, Figures 6, 7, and 10 Lophopanopeus diegensis Rathbun, Amer. Nat., vol. 34, 1900, p. 137 (type-local- ity, San Diego, 10 fathoms; type. Cat. No. 4281, U.S.N.M.); Harriman Alaska Exped., vol. 10, 1904, p. 184, pi. 9, fig. 3.—Schmitt, Univ. California Publ. ZooL, vol. 23, 1921, p. 245, text-fig. 146, pi. 37, fig. 5. Diagnosis.—Carpus of ambulatory legs with two large naked tubercles on upper margin. Carpus of chelipeds with numerous, mostly separated tubercles on exposed surface. Second antero- lateral tooth slightly projecting. Description.—Carapace granulate on frontal and lateral regions, granules arranged partly in lines. Frontal lobes deflexed, edge slightly oblique and sinuous, outer tooth inconspicuous. Second antero-
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FiGURE 49.—Lophopanopeus diegensis, male, eolotype, carapace 11.4 mm. wide lateral tooth small, somewhat dentiform, directed toward orbit; third, fourth, and fifth teeth prominent, carinate and subacute. Suborbital and subhepatic regions granulate. Carpus of chelipeds with about 35 unequal, finely granulate tuber- cles, irregularly placed, some of them forming lines. Hand bicarinate above, inner carina with a small prominence at proximal end; a few tubercles on upper part of inner surface; upper and proximal portion of outer surface rough with fine granulated rugae. Dark color of immovable fingers not running back on palm but ending obliquely on minor chela. Carpus of legs with two prominent naked, truncate tubercles on upper margin, by which this species may at once be recognized; propodus of last one to three pairs with a smaller tubercle near proximal end of upper margin.

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