August 5, 192k, Tuesday 
Used boat dredge looking for small green ascidian for Dr. Grave. Occurs 
2/3 distance from wreck to buoy off S. end of Loggerhead Key in 18-20 feet 
water. Rocky coral head bottom, much of the attached kind of sargassum and 
the large, broad-leaved alga Taylor wasn’t much interested in. One little 
pink sea urchin discarded; tiny crabs and amphipods saved. 
Charley secured another Calappa with much more reticulating lines; lines 
finer and more numerous andreticulations more numerous, too. Antennules 
bright red (geranium red) with narrow white bands at joints. 
Bird Key Reef Beach — small Calappa ate pieces of conch foot left in 
over night. 
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Went dredging in area between Long Key and 
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Bush Key reef; eel grass bottom and Dichotia* 
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4th & 5th hauls Dichotia and green filamentous 
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felt. In first three got Osachila and 
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Tozeuma and 1 or 2 Portunids. On 4 & 5, 
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L puerulus of spiny lobster and number of 
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Portunids. (Bender tells me he never 
be tried . 
has seen buried lobster here.) Found a 
second puerulus, but it was all mashed. (Dexter says he has found tiny lobsters 
on dock piles at station. I have a small one, but Dexter has a much smaller one.) 
*Calappa has incurrent opening between chelipeds and body. Blows out 
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opening by reversal of current when they become clogged. Excurrent very t 
powerful, shows at top of 5 or 8 inches of water, or l/2 inch high 2 inches 
in front of body when half out of water, but that may be more to frighten 
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enemy, as part of time it just bubbled over. Might have been just JplagciSg 
possum as it often does. Most crabs do. 
