. Animal activities; a first book in zoo?logy. Zoology; Animal behavior. MATERJ/tL FOR STUDY. 15. sea-weeds, on logs and sticks, and are sometimes at- tached to the shells of mussels. Find them at low tide and transfer them to a marine aquarium, made by filling ajar with salt water and introducing some marine plants collected on the rocks where the campanularians are found. Some closely related colonies are called sertularians. Hydractinia is the name given to a colony consisting of pink, salt-water hydroids found growing on the snail-shells occu- pied by hermit-crabs. Sea-anemones. These anim
. Animal activities; a first book in zoo?logy. Zoology; Animal behavior. MATERJ/tL FOR STUDY. 15. sea-weeds, on logs and sticks, and are sometimes at- tached to the shells of mussels. Find them at low tide and transfer them to a marine aquarium, made by filling ajar with salt water and introducing some marine plants collected on the rocks where the campanularians are found. Some closely related colonies are called sertularians. Hydractinia is the name given to a colony consisting of pink, salt-water hydroids found growing on the snail-shells occu- pied by hermit-crabs. Sea-anemones. These animals are hardy and may be transported for some distance in jars or pails of salt water. To obtain them, look in pools left by the tide in rocky places, or on rocky bottoms below low tide. They are sometimes found attached to the piles of wharves or bridges. They can be removed from the rocks by quickly slipping a broad, thin knife between the anemone and the rock. Their resemblance to hydras and to coral animals should be especially noted. Except as living specimens they are not of much value to beginners, as the prepared specimens are commonly too much distorted to show structure well. These animals may They As Fig. 20.—A Sertula- rian Colony. After 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 French, Nathaniel Stowers, 1854-. New York [etc. etc. ] Longmans, Green and Co
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