SCALY GALATHEA. 



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DECAPODA. 



ANOMOURA. 



PORCELLANAD/E. 



SCALY GALATHEA. 



Galathea squamifera. Leach. 



Specific character. — Rostrum short, with one central spine, and four on each 

 side, the hinder one the smallest ; anterior feet broad,^flattened, covered with 

 squamifonn tubercles ; the hands externally, and the wrists and arms internally 

 spinous. Third joint of the extenial pedipalps longer than the second. 



Cancer (astacus) sqtiamife 

 Galathea sqiuxmifera. 



Montagu. 



Leach, Edinb. Encycl. VII. p. 393. Diet. 



des So. Nat. XVIII. p. 51. Malac. Podoph. 



Brit. t. xxviii. A. — Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust. 



II. p. 275. 

 Couch, Com. Faun. p. 77. 

 Thomps. Crust. Irel. 1. c. p. 105. 



The carapace, exclusive of the rostrum, is a little longer 



