. Seaside studies in natural history. Marine animals. water in which it floats, and will not be aware that you have reached it till the animal shrinks away from the contact. The adult Tima, represented in Fig. 76, is not more than an iachand a half or two inches in diameter. Instead of count- less tubes diverging from the digestive cavity to the margin of the disk, as in the Zygodactyla, there are but four. The di- gestive cavity in the Tima is much smaller than in the Zygo- dactyla, and is placed at the end of the proboscis, which is long, and hangs down far below the disk. This removal of th
. Seaside studies in natural history. Marine animals. water in which it floats, and will not be aware that you have reached it till the animal shrinks away from the contact. The adult Tima, represented in Fig. 76, is not more than an iachand a half or two inches in diameter. Instead of count- less tubes diverging from the digestive cavity to the margin of the disk, as in the Zygodactyla, there are but four. The di- gestive cavity in the Tima is much smaller than in the Zygo- dactyla, and is placed at the end of the proboscis, which is long, and hangs down far below the disk. This removal of the diges- tive cavity to the extremity of the proboscis gives to the tubes Kg. 78. lima; half natural size. Fig. 77. One of the lips of the mouth at the extremity of the long proboscis ; m mouth, d digeBtire cavity, e chymiferous Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907; Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910, joint author. Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company
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