# The writer reports that living examples of the crab his fossil matches are found at Williamstown and elsewhere on the shores of Port Phillip.

> Cite as: PLOT record c/63P6-YC v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1886), reported by source

- **Address:** c/63P6-YC, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/63P6-YC)
- **Value:** This fossil agrees with P. levis, according to Mr. Haswell to whom I forwarded some specimens. Living examples are met with at Williamstown and other parts of the shores of Port Phillip. (Historical passage)
- **About:** Williamstown
- **Kind:** Reported by source
- **Who said it:** Reported by community
- **Period:** 1886
- **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person.
- **Open questions:** None open
- **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.3 (1886-1887) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 110, victoriannatural318861887fiel, leaf 150, printed page 110 <https://archive.org/details/victoriannatural318861887fiel>
- **The snippet in PLOT:** <https://www.plot.eco/s/47K7-RA?snippet=10f57773-934b-4be3-8b5f-19b368e6204d>
- **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural318861887fiel, leaf 150, printed page 110
- **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- **Editions:** october-26th-release
- **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
  - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural318861887fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
  - Screening: include (meets criteria): Living crabs of the fossil's genus reported at Williamstown's shore.

## History
- Version 1 (this version): first published version

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Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/63P6-YC.json
Cite as: PLOT record c/63P6-YC v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1886), reported by source
