The authors investigated the carotenoids in the hermit crab,
Clibanarius misanthropus (
Risso), from the Black Sea. By means of columnar and thin-layer chromatography the following carotenoids were found to be present in that species;
-carotene, canthaxanthin, lutein, astaxanthin and some kind of polioxyxanthophill.
Communicated by E. A. Pora, Cluj