The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ttle points arranged in longitudinal rows. The animal has two large vascular v\ings, which areits branchia; and its fins; and between them, on the open side, there is a third lesser lohe with threepoints. The mouth, with two small tentacula, is between the wings, towards the closed side of theshell; and above are two minute eyes, and the orifice of generation, whence issues a penis in the form • Some uf tliese multilocular sbuUs belong apporentlsr to the test
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ttle points arranged in longitudinal rows. The animal has two large vascular v\ings, which areits branchia; and its fins; and between them, on the open side, there is a third lesser lohe with threepoints. The mouth, with two small tentacula, is between the wings, towards the closed side of theshell; and above are two minute eyes, and the orifice of generation, whence issues a penis in the form • Some uf tliese multilocular sbuUs belong apporentlsr to the testa- | t M. de Illaiiiville utiilea my Pceropodcs and Gasteropodes into eeous Annelidcs ; while the carious observntionsof Ui^ardin seem to one claAS. which he calls faracephatophora, of which my Ptcropods have proved that the great balk of Ihe Foraminiferea are not Mol- I constitute bia order ^purobrancMata. This order he divides into lutca, bat animals related to the Infusoria.—Wnn. dci Sci. Nat. n. 8. I two families;—The Thfriaomata, which have a shell; and the Gjimiiu- vol. v. et sen.—El,. I toinutu, which are 344 MOLLUSCA. of a little beak. The transparency of the body allows us to diitinguish the heart, the brain, and theviscera, through the envelopes. The Pneumodermes {Pneumodermon, Cuv.)—Carry their dissimilarity to the Clios a little further. The body is oval, without cloak or shell; thebranchiae attached to the skin, and formed of httle leaflets set in two or three lines, disposed in thefigure of tlie letter H opposite to the head; the fins small; the mouth (garnished with two small lips,and two bundles of numerous tentacula, terminated each by a sucker) has underneath a small lobe, orfleshy only species (P. Peronii, Cuv.) was taken in the ocean by Peron. It is not less than an inch in length. The Limacinje, Cuv.,—Ought, from the description of Fabricius, to have a nigh relationship to Pneumodennon; but their bodyis terminated with
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