. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. THE niOXICIITLIDIUM, G43 llrs. 0 iind Tare piven two more forms of this genus, wliicli am evidontlv of a niuHi less pnhct tyi.(' tlian t u> species, and, according to the language of naturalists are siiul to 1)0 degraded lornis. > ^ It is hardly possible to imagine any forms that are so strange, any hahits so as those which are found in the crustaceans iigured in this "illustration Altliixigli they have been known for
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. THE niOXICIITLIDIUM, G43 llrs. 0 iind Tare piven two more forms of this genus, wliicli am evidontlv of a niuHi less pnhct tyi.(' tlian t u> species, and, according to the language of naturalists are siiul to 1)0 degraded lornis. > ^ It is hardly possible to imagine any forms that are so strange, any hahits so as those which are found in the crustaceans iigured in this "illustration Altliixigli they have been known for some tiuu', their ])ro])er place in the scale of crea- tion has long been a disputed ]ioint among systpmatic naturalists, some considering' them to belong to the crustaceans and others to the sjiiilcrs. As, however, they undergo a true iiiftamorphosis, which is not the case with iiiiy spider, they are now admitted to be real, hut niii(|ue Crustacea. Even sucli naturalists ;h Siiliold and ^lilne-Edwards differed about the former idacing Ihcm among the lln'iii. ,- ,-, ' s ^""^ siiiikrs and the latter ranking them with the cnistiicra. Such strange creatures as these are not Msily descrilied, especially when the space that can lie granted to them is so limited, for tlii'ir whole ecoiumij'is so thoroughly unique that they requii'o a volume rather than a yiv^c They are found u]ion the Uritish masts, and their history is briefly a:, follows. At figs. B and C of the accompanying ilhistvation are seen two strange-lookiuL;- (rcatuivs with wonderfully small bodies and iiiiiriimiis legs, jointed and arranged in such a luaiiiier as almost \i> preeliide the idea of ihi'ir rcid character. Indeed, it seems pass- im; siiaiigehow the tiny abdomen can absorb .-ullicieiit nutriment for the su])]ily of those laarvrnnus Their econumy is tu- strangi' a-, their Infill, Sniiie specimens of a well-known Zdophyte I'l'i-i/iK 'inii) are seen gidwiiig ;is they iili|Har while att
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