A manual of the Infusoria : including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa, British and foreign, and an account of the organization and the affinities of the sponges . ough the water is effected, and food-particles brought withinreach of the mouth; oral aperture situated within the centre and at thebase of the projecting frill, guarded by a tongue-shaped valve or velum. Torquatella typica, Lankester. Pl. XXXII. Figs. 32-34. Body elongate-ovate, nearly twice as long as broad, rounded posteriorly ;the anterior membranous frill highly expansile, its front m


A manual of the Infusoria : including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa, British and foreign, and an account of the organization and the affinities of the sponges . ough the water is effected, and food-particles brought withinreach of the mouth; oral aperture situated within the centre and at thebase of the projecting frill, guarded by a tongue-shaped valve or velum. Torquatella typica, Lankester. Pl. XXXII. Figs. 32-34. Body elongate-ovate, nearly twice as long as broad, rounded posteriorly ;the anterior membranous frill highly expansile, its front margin abruptlytruncate or emarginate, its surface obliquely plicate. Dimensions unre-corded. Hab.—Salt-water, Mediterranean. This remarkable animalcule was met with on one occasion only by ProfessorE. Ray Lankester at Naples in association with a mass of eggs of Terebella in adecaying state, and fragments of which had been freely incepted. The anterior 622 CILIA TA-PERITRICHA. ^^ S- I. .a .:^ g S v2 -a 1^ !i :s ^ G^^;^ E^ScS^;q vA^ t4odoNc5 i-<Nfo i ^^ *^ Q 5 . S 2 ^S S a ?« < u I—I H l-H w PL|I < < o < O Q < < C_) -I Q ^ . 0 IH ri is O O U •is -1^-1 O rt h-i = S b a S o. o 3 ci rt rj r3 1^ (J ^ 7? >. o In fl. U c ^ (U flj ^ p» ( ? &-R Tl !/] rt <U ^ CT Cj


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