Jo Wolfe, PhDSep 9, 2025
Did you know the 1916 paper naming "carcinization" is available online? It uses the description of a hermit crab, Porcellanopagurus, to discuss evolution of crabbiness from noncrabbiness, as below 🧪🦀🦑 But...this is not the first time the morphology was noticed 1/3 decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31940/3...
Show threadJo Wolfe, PhD
Indeed, monographs noting different crustaceans were crablike had been published in French (Bouvier) and Danish (Boas) since 1880. Back then, there wasn't easy access to copies of papers, automated translation, or easy travel to see specimens in the wild or museums 2/3
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Show threadJo Wolfe, PhDSep 9, 2025
We have those 145-year old pdfs because of efforts like @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and the 2005-2010 #NSFFunded Decapoda Tree of Life project. Very disturbing that our knowledge could slip back into obscurity where we have to travel to other libraries and translate manually... 3/3