THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



GIANT SPIDER CRAB FROM JAPAN 



THE GIANT SPIDER CRAB. 



I HE Department of Invertebrate Zoology has re- 

 cently placed on exhibition in the Synoptic Hall 

 (No. 107) on the ground floor of the Museum a 

 fine specimen of the largest of all Crustaceans, the 

 Giant Spider Crab, Kccinpferia (Macrocheira) 

 kcBnipferi de Haan, which measures somewhat over 12 feet be- 

 tween the tips of its outstretched claws. This animal is known 

 to occur to a depth of over 2000 feet in the seas off the coast of 



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