Walter Faxon
Published: 2018-02-24
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Excerpt from The Stalk-Eyed Crustacea Two Specimens, male and female, were collected at low tide on the reef at Panama, March 12. Leptopodz'a debilis is one of the many littoral Crustacea of Panama that are represented by very closely allied Species on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus. It is distinguished from Leptopodz'a sagz'tz'am'a its Atlantic represen tative, chiefly by its shorter hand, relatively longer fingers, and greater breadth across the branchial region of the carapace. The rostrum is usually shorter and inclined upward more than in L. Sagz'tlam'a; but in the type specimen (m. C. Z. No. 3948, Polvon, Nicaragua), it is exceptionally long, - more than one and a half times as long as the rest of the carapace. III average specimens of L. Debilis the rostrum is about equal in length to the rest of the carapace. The difference in the form of the male abdomen in L. Debilis and in Milne Edwards's figure of L. Sagz'flarz'a (cuvier's Régne Animal, Disciples' ed., Crustacea, Plate XXXVI. Fig. 1d), noted by Smith, arises from the inaccuracy of the figure, not from any real difference between the two species, which are alike in this regard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
