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Cancer tetragonon

Herbst (1790)

Cancer tetragonon: Herbst (1790) image
This drawing is from Herbst (1790). It is the image accompanying the type description of Gelasimus tetragonon. This species was, unusually for fiddler crabs, described from a female specimen (which at the time they did not realize were different than males, so no association was made between this specimen and the names associated with fiddlers).