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WALDO L. SCHMITT - TORTUGAS NOTES 
1930 
July 9 - August 18 
STATION RECORDS 
July 10, 1930 
#1 - 30. 
White hermit from hole in old piece of coral rock (frag.) in 2 ft. water, 
and a Sicyonia, from old tire filled with hermits, C. tricolor . Both from 
east side Loggerhead swimming beach, off sleeping quarters. Also Squilla 
from another hole in piece of coral. 
#2 - 30 
Afternoon, between 3 : 30 and 4:30 on Bush Key Reef, channel end (south). 
Chloride of limed 2 tide pools. Got some fish and few Mithrax, Squillas, and 
Microphrys, 1 or 2 hermits. Crustacea are made active but not nearly so affected 
as fish, if at all. Got 2 of viviparous little fish that Dr. Longley thought 
rare, like little yellow or dull orange liparid. 
Three amphinomids, large one about 120 mm. 
long when moderately extended. Caruncle plicate. 
Back olive green, gills more olive, sides and ventral olive buff. Between 
each two somites line of Jointing is olive yellow. Two smaller worms salmon 
color top, sides, and bottom, fir&t third salmon and last fourth intervening 
distance with drab grey tinge. In locomoting ventral bundles of setae are 
spread out fanwise, very much so, and are apparently very efficient paddles. 
Darker narrow stripe of green 
down mid dorsal line. 
I went out on west side of Loggerhead between cook house and half way 
to lighthouse pier and saw but one or two hermits in all. True, it was high 
tide, about 11:00 a.m. 
