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Scyllarides latus (Decapoda: Scyllaridae) by Cornelius Sittardus
... that all that remains of the
type specimen
of the
Mediterranean slipper lobster
is a 16th century
watercolour
(pictured)
?
... that the blind crustacean
Polycheles typhlops
preys on
fish
and on other crustaceans, probably acting as an
ambush predator
?
... that
Edward J. Miers
was paid 60
guineas
for his
monograph
on the
crabs
of the
Challenger
expedition
?
... that the genus
Platythelphusa
represents the only
evolutionary radiation
of
crabs
to have occurred in a freshwater lake?