[Reprinted from "The Annals of Scottish Natural History," October 1902.] 



SOME NOTES ON THE SCOTTISH CRANGONIDyE. 



By Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



The chief purpose of the following notes is to bring together 

 the various scattered records of the Scottish species of the 

 family Crangonidae that have been published from time to 

 time. 



The best-known species of the family is the common 

 shrimp, Crangon vulgaris (Linn.), which the Rev. Mr. Stebbing 

 describes in his felicitous style as being " apparently in the 

 zoological ideas of many persons not only the typical shrimp, 

 the shrimp par excellence, but the only shrimp." l 



At the time of the publication of Professor Bell's " History 

 of the British Stalk-eyed Crustacea," little appears to have 

 been known regarding the distribution of the Crangonidae in 

 the Scottish seas, for although six species are described by 

 that author, the only direct reference made to Scotland is in 

 connection with Crangon spinosus (Leach), where, at page 

 262, he remarks : " I have a specimen taken by my friends 

 Professor Forbes and Mr. M'Andrew, off Shetland." But 

 since Professor Bell's day many observers have been in the 

 field, and the distribution of the Crangonidae in the Scottish 

 seas has received much attention, with the result that ten 

 species are now included in the marine fauna of Scotland ; 

 they comprise nine species of Crangon, together with Sabinea 

 septemcarinata. 



I will briefly mention in their order a few of the works 

 published subsequent to that of Professor Bell, in which 

 more or less prominence is given to the Scottish Crangonidae. 



1. The Rev. A. M. Norman, "Last Report on Dredging among 

 the Shetland Isles " (published in the Report of the British Associa- 

 tion for 1868), records Crangon vulgaris, C. Allmanni, C. fasciatus, 

 C trispinosus, C spinosus, C. echinulatus, and Sabinea septem- 

 carinata. 



2. Prof. Macintosh, "The Marine Invertebrates and Fishes of 

 St. Andrews," published in 1875, records only Crangon vulgaris. 



1 "A History of Crustacea," vol. lxxiv. of the International Scientific Series, 

 p. 225. 



