Figure 96. — Paguristes tortugae Schniitt. 

 Anterior part of body in dorsal view, 

 X 10 (after Holthuis, 1959). 



Chelipeds equal, thickly covered with hairs, 

 medial margins of chelae and carpi straight, 

 fitting closely together when retracted; hands 

 with forwardly directed, hooked spines on median 

 upper surface, inner margin, outer half, and outer 

 margin of immovable finger, hairs arising along 

 anterior part of base of tubercles giving a squa- 

 mose appearance; dactyl with seven more or less 

 distinct, transverse rows of small, horny-tipped 

 tubercles, largest on upper margin; fingers with 

 tips corneous, more or less spooned; lower surface 

 of chela smooth except for some tufts of hairs. 

 First and second walking legs with heavy fringes 

 of hairs along upper and lower margins and some 

 tufts on lateral surfaces, outer surface smooth; 



dactyls somewhat longer than propodi, tips dark, 

 corneous, a row of similar colored spinules on 

 ventral border; inner surface of dactyls and 

 propodi with squamiform tubercles near upper 

 and lower margins, more pronounced where bases 

 of hairs coincide with squamous tubercles. First 

 walking legs with upper surface of propodus 

 serrate, and a few denticles at base of dactyl. Sec- 

 ond legs with two rows of spines on carpus, one 

 on upper margin and one on upper portion of 

 inner surface, a shallow groove on upper part of 

 inner surface extending distad from carpus. Third 

 legs with a single row of spines on carpus ; merus 

 of second and third legs with an anteroventral 

 spine. 



Measurements. — Length of carapace: male, 10 

 mm.; ovigerous female, 7 mm. (Provenzano, 

 1959). 



Variations. — Holthuis (1959) described a some- 

 what longer rostrum, a longer antennular pe- 

 duncle, a somewhat spinier acicle, and a less 

 spiny merus on the cheliped for Surinam speci- 

 mens. 



Color. — Whitish, with large spines on inner 

 margin of hand and carpus red; occasionally, 

 hard parts lightly tinted with green or purple; 

 eyestalks with a single band of black on white, 

 and antennules with similar rings on ends of ar- 

 ticles (Provenzano, 1959). In preserved material, 

 these dark bands appear red (Holthuis, 1959). 



Habitat. — Usually taken on hard or shelly 

 bottom; shallow water to 20 fathoms. 



Type locality. — Off Fort Jefferson Dock, Gar- 

 den Key, Dry Tortugas, Fla. 



Known range. — Reefs off Beaufort, N.C., to 

 southern Florida; through West Indies to 

 Surinam. 



Remarks. — Ovigerous females have been re- 

 ported from February to October in Florida 

 (Provenzano, 1959, in part), in June in North 

 Carolina, August in South Carolina, October in 

 Puerto Rico, and in May from Surinam 

 (Holthius, 1959). 



Genus Clibanarius Dana, 1852 



Dana. 1852, p. 6. 



Clibanarius vittatus (Bosc). Striped hermit crab 



Figure 97 



Pagurus vittatus Bosc, [1801 or 1802], p. 78, pi. 12, flg. 1. 

 Clibanarius vittatus: Hay and Shore, 1918, p. 410, pi. 30, 

 flg. 9.— Provenzano, 1959, p. 371, flg. 5 D. 



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