. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 428 Podocerus, Leach, and lassa, Leach, have the inferior antennae greatly elongated in the form, and occasionally assuming the functions of legs and organs of prehension ; their second legs are terminated by a large claw. Corophium, Latr., has similar lower antennae, but none of the legs are cheliferous. The type is Cancer grossipes, Linn., Gammanis longicornis, Fab., Oniscus vohdator, Pal., and which is named Pernys on the coast of La Rochelle, living in burrows, which it forms in the sand, covered by hu
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 428 Podocerus, Leach, and lassa, Leach, have the inferior antennae greatly elongated in the form, and occasionally assuming the functions of legs and organs of prehension ; their second legs are terminated by a large claw. Corophium, Latr., has similar lower antennae, but none of the legs are cheliferous. The type is Cancer grossipes, Linn., Gammanis longicornis, Fab., Oniscus vohdator, Pal., and which is named Pernys on the coast of La Rochelle, living in burrows, which it forms in the sand, covered by hurdles, called bouchots by the in- habitants. The animal only makes its appearance at the beginning of May. It keeps up a continual war with the Nereids, Amphinomœ, Arenicolae, and other marine aniielidae which take up their abode in the same place. Nothing is more curious than to observe these creatures at the rising of the tide assembled in myriads, moving about in all directions, beating the mud with their arm-like antennae, and diluting it in order to discover their prey. If they discover any of these annelidae, often ten or even twenty times larger than themselves, they unite together to attack and devour it. The carnage never ceases until the mud has been turned over and examined. They also attack fishes, moUusca, and dead bodies on the shore. They mount upon the hurdles which contain muscles, as well as upon the latter, and the fishermen pretend that they cut the threads which retain the muscles, in order to cause the latter to T\g. 12.—Corophium longncornc ; a, terminal sepTnent of fall, so that they may be the more readily devoured. They appear to breed throughout the season, as the females are found carrying eggs at different times s shore-birds and many kinds of fishes devour them. The second of the sections of the order Amphipoda, or the Heteropa, Lat., is composed of those which have fourteen legs, the four posterior at least being unarmed at the tip, and fit onl
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