The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . )-- 37. Cerithiopsis terebralis (Xl|).Littorina rudis. minuta (X 2).Crepidula convexa. producta, fusca (X 3). puncto-striata (X3).Cylichna orvza (X 2).Crucibulum impressa (X 2). ,:* The representation X 2, etc., indicates that the figure has been enlargedto two linear dimensions. PL. 1,. THE SHELL-FISH OF THE COAST. 23 coast are inha
The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . )-- 37. Cerithiopsis terebralis (Xl|).Littorina rudis. minuta (X 2).Crepidula convexa. producta, fusca (X 3). puncto-striata (X3).Cylichna orvza (X 2).Crucibulum impressa (X 2). ,:* The representation X 2, etc., indicates that the figure has been enlargedto two linear dimensions. PL. 1,. THE SHELL-FISH OF THE COAST. 23 coast are inhabited by hermit crabs, which in manycases, possibly, obtained possession through the rightof force of arms. Bo this as it may, it is certainthat the hermit has been providentially providedfor, and that it has much to offer by way of grati-tude to the dog-whelks. The Nassas are probablyall very tenacious of life; a specimen of Nassa obso-leta submitted to me from Atlantic City survivedfor a full year the dry atmosphere of a closet withan artificially-heated wall. The Nassas are not the only inhabitants of thetide-pools either, for with them we find associatedone or more forms of periwinkles, various smallfishes, and the ever-active hermit. Other organ-isms, whose existence would scarcely have beenthought of, also lurk here. One of these is thefounder of a colony which has settled on the backof old Nassa obsoleta, and there spread out a crispbrown covering, much resembling dry n^oss, whichmight be readily mistaken for the horny covering(epid
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