. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . onaccount of having leaf-like cirri,which thev use in locomotion. V The head is long and bears fourpairs of short and four pairs oflong tentacles. The body is longand depressed, sometimes twofeet in length, usually eight totwelve inches long. The generalcolor is bright green and irides-cent. Found in tide-pools. Speci-mens are often found by diggingin sandy mud, or they may beobtained by placing old shellsand other material in a dish ofsea-water. When the water be-comes a litt
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . onaccount of having leaf-like cirri,which thev use in locomotion. V The head is long and bears fourpairs of short and four pairs oflong tentacles. The body is longand depressed, sometimes twofeet in length, usually eight totwelve inches long. The generalcolor is bright green and irides-cent. Found in tide-pools. Speci-mens are often found by diggingin sandy mud, or they may beobtained by placing old shellsand other material in a dish ofsea-water. When the water be-comes a little stale, the worms ofthis and otherfamilies make theirway to the sides of the dish, wherethey secrete a colorless slimewhich holds mud or any lightmatter that it mav come in con- i/ tact with. In this condition, when lifted or disturbed,they crawlrapidly out of the slime, and show to good advantage their elongatebody, which is often beautifully colored. GENUS jPtu/llodoce I. </wtcilis. Three inches or more long and one sixteenth of an inchwide ; large proboscis, with twelve longitudinal rows of prominent pro-. Aphrodite aculeata, natural size : c, neurn]>«<lialchsetse; p, palps; 1, iridescent bristles; 2, stiff3, felting bristles of notopodium.
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