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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga62_2cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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Calif. Fish and Game (62)2:161-162. 1976 A SWIMMING CRAB, EUPHYLAX DOV// STlhAPSOU 1860, NEW TO THE MARINE FAUNA OF CALIFORNIA On 30 August 1974, during a series of otter trawls conducted by the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project in Santa Monica Bay, a specimen of the purple swimming crab, Euphylax dovi'i Stimpson 1860, was collected near Playa del Rey. The specimen was taken in a 15 min tow at lat 33°56.15' N, long 11826.75' W, in 11 m (36 ft) of water. This species of swimming crab is common in the stomach contents of tuna caught throughout the Central American Pacific at distances of up to 190 km (115 miles) offshore (Suhl 1955; Alverson 1963). Although the crab has been taken at great distances offshore, indicating a high degree of mobility, it has only been recorded as far north as Bahia de Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico (Garth and Stephenson 1966). Thus, our observation adds almost 2,200 km (1320 miles) to the known range of the species. Three other swimming crabs have been reported in California waters, Portunusxantusii (Stimpson 1860), CallinectesarcuatusOrdv^scy 1863, and Callinectes bellicosus (Stimpson 1859). These and other distributional in- formation can be found in Garth and Stephenson 1966. The purple swim- ming crab, Euphylax dovii (Figure 1) is easily distinguished from these other, more common forms because of its narrow, T-shaped rostrum, its very long eye stalks (with orbits occupying nearly the whole anterior border of the carapace), and its reddish-purple carapace.
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FIGURE 1. Dorsal view of Euphylax ctew/token in Santo Monico Boy, 30 August 1974. Figure drown by Christine Bondante. (161)

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