🌞 Annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory Claremont, Calif.: Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912- Original source Image description: Illustration from the 1912 Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory, Pomona College, Claremont, California, depicting a detailed scientific drawing of a crab with segmented body and large, curved claws. The crab is centrally positioned and rendered with fine lines showing body texture and appendages. Flanking the crab are two smaller, leaf-like marine organisms labeled 3 and 4, each with a slender stalk and curved top resembling underwater plants. The drawing is minimalistic, set against a plain background, emphasizing the anatomical details for educational and biological study purposes related to California marine life.
Just a correction, this is an image of a pseudoscorpion not a crab. I'm guessing these image descriptions are generated with AI which sucks since the actual illustrations themselves are often really interesting.
The figure key a couple pages above identifies it as Chelanops pallipes, which is now reclassified as Hesperochernes pallipes. I couldn't find any photos of this particular species but here is another member of genus Hesperochernes:
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