. Animal life as affected by the natural conditions of existence. Animal ecology. Fig. 83.—^A piece of wood bored by Limnoria terebranst from Heligoland. existed—in the nature of difierent animals, which has occasioned them sometimes to abandon their original habits or to alter Fig. 84.—a piece of solid limestone bored by Limnoria leriiram, from Ireland. The two woodcuts here given illustrate a very striking case in point. It has long been known that a small Crustacean, Limnoria terebrans, attacks the hardest kinds of wood—like the well-known ship-worm, Teredo navalis—^and pierces it in
. Animal life as affected by the natural conditions of existence. Animal ecology. Fig. 83.—^A piece of wood bored by Limnoria terebranst from Heligoland. existed—in the nature of difierent animals, which has occasioned them sometimes to abandon their original habits or to alter Fig. 84.—a piece of solid limestone bored by Limnoria leriiram, from Ireland. The two woodcuts here given illustrate a very striking case in point. It has long been known that a small Crustacean, Limnoria terebrans, attacks the hardest kinds of wood—like the well-known ship-worm, Teredo navalis—^and pierces it in all directions with its cylindrical galleries (see fig. 83). But it is perhaps less well known that the same species attacks solid limestone in the same manner. The stone of which the an- nexed cut shows a small portion (see fig. 84) I myself picked up. 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 Semper, C. (Carl), 1832-1893. New York, D. Appleton
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