. Sea-shore life; the invertebrates of the New York coast. Marine animals. THE WORMS 65 and thus tlie little worm develops, as it were, witliin its own larva, which shrivels and is cast off. The Pink Ril)bon-"Worm, fMeckelia rosea J, is smaller than .¥. imjens, never being more than a1)out ten inches long and one-qnar- ter of an inch wide. It has a thread-like proboscis which can be. Fig-. 34; upper. EIBBON-WOKM. Lower. OPAL-W(.>RM. shot out with remarkable rapidity, and is fully ten Inches long. This worm is dull red or flesh colored, and lives in sand near low water mark. The sand ad
. Sea-shore life; the invertebrates of the New York coast. Marine animals. THE WORMS 65 and thus tlie little worm develops, as it were, witliin its own larva, which shrivels and is cast off. The Pink Ril)bon-"Worm, fMeckelia rosea J, is smaller than .¥. imjens, never being more than a1)out ten inches long and one-qnar- ter of an inch wide. It has a thread-like proboscis which can be. Fig-. 34; upper. EIBBON-WOKM. Lower. OPAL-W(.>RM. shot out with remarkable rapidity, and is fully ten Inches long. This worm is dull red or flesh colored, and lives in sand near low water mark. The sand adheres tenaciously to the slime-covered body of the worm. The Sea Mouse, (Aphrodite aculeata, Fig. 35). This remarka- ble worm is oval in shape, and about three Inches long and one and one-half wide. The skin is dull brown but the sides are covered with numerous hair-like bristles, many of which glisten with brilliant green, red and yellow iridescence. The head bears a pair of tapering feelers, and there are about forty pairs of legs provided with short, stiff, brown- colored bristles, which extend outward at the edges of the flat lower surface This worm lives in mud below tide level, and is found from Long Island northward, and is abundant on the northern coasts of Europe. The Clam Worms, (Nereis, Fig. 06), are very common in muddy beaches where they live between tide levels in burrows lined with mucous. They are segmented, or ringed, each ring of the body bearing a pair of flapper-like gill-feet. The head segment, however, is more complex, for it bears ten feelers, two fleshy "palps," and Fig. 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 Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922. New York, A. S. Barnes
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