Author: Ward, M. and W. K. Fischer and J. R. Le B. Tomlin
Title: Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Zoology. [Crabs, starfish, marine Mollusca].
Description: Singapore, The Raffles Museum, 1934. 8vo. 100 pp.; several illustrations. Original printed wrappers. = A collection of three papers on the fauna of this isolated island southwest of Java. With an important paper on the crabs (by Ward), including new species. The island is famous for its red land crab which however, might become extinct because of the accidental introduction of fire ants. Also a note on starfish (by Fischer), and molluscs (by Tomlin). Other papers deal with new birds, and various invertebrates (Stomatopoda, Cirripedia), and mammals and a new fish from different localities in the Indo-Pacific tropics. This is the Museum's Bulletin volume 9. Uncut, unmarked. Very uncommon.

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