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Fiddler-Crabs and Their Immoderate Differences
Male Fiddler-Crab (Gelasimus annulipes) of the Godavari and Kistna mud-flats. One of the chelipeds is enormously enlarged, and has the 'hand' brilliantly coloured, so as to be at once a weapon and an ornament in the prolonged and savage tournaments in which these little creatures engage to win the favour of the opposite sex
Fiddler-Crabs and Their Immoderate Differences<br>Male Fiddler-Crab (Gelasimus annulipes) of the Godavari and Kistna mud-flats. One of the chelipeds is enormously enlarged, and has the 'hand' brilliantly coloured, so as to be at once a weapon and an ornament in the prolonged and savage tournaments in which these little creatures engage to win the favour of the opposite sex<br>
CategoryShellfish
CaptionFiddler-Crabs and Their Immoderate Differences
Male Fiddler-Crab (Gelasimus annulipes) of the Godavari and Kistna mud-flats. One of the chelipeds is enormously enlarged, and has the 'hand' brilliantly coloured, so as to be at once a weapon and an ornament in the prolonged and savage tournaments in which these little creatures engage to win the favour of the opposite sex
Image Date1902.00
SubjectFiddler crabs
Gelasimus
Image Source AuthorAlcock, Alfred W.
Image Source TitleNaturalist in Indian Seas : or, Four Years with the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship 'Investigator'
Pub. Info.New York City, NY : E. P. Dutton & Co., 1902
Page No./Plate No.Plage 29
Digital collectionFreshwater and Marine Image Bank
RepositoryMost materials are located in the University of Washington Libraries. Images were scanned by staff of the UW Fisheries-Oceanography Library
CopyrightMaterials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.
Ordering InformationThe University of Washington Libraries does not provide reproductions of this image. This record contains a citation for this image. If you want to use the scanned image, acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.
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