Crab, shrimp, and lobster lore

What say you to a ramble among the fairy rock pools, weed-covered ledges, and gem-decked parterres bordering the gardens of the sea? Where ocean plants and flowrets of a thousan...

The owners of yachts, and families residing near the sea, will find a few crab-pots, which can be made at a very trifling cost, a valuable acquisition, as not only crabs, but lo...

Then we have the soft-tailed, _Soldier_, or _Hermit Crabs_, who, because they are insufficiently clad by nature, seize on the first convenient shell they can discover, and then,...

The countless thousands of islands, reefs, and spots of newly-formed land dotting the South Seas and Indian Ocean, are ever on the increase. The foundations of these are firmly...

_P. minutus_ is a roving sailor by nature, and is carried on his long sea-voyages by the masses of weed ever carried onward by the warm and genial gulf-stream, and there is litt...

In the pools and ditches of our lanes and fields, we find another curious little crustacean creature, _Apus productus_, who differs entirely from that already described, in almo...

_A. fluviatilis_ shifts his shell, much in the same manner as his salt-water cousins, and, like them, is painfully nervous and retiring in his habits during the hardening of the...