. Dwellers of the sea and shore. Marine animals. ILLUSTRATIONS Ccelenterates Frontispiece FACK A promising spot for the naturalist 5 Colony of barnacles living on a rock G Caprella; a small shore crustacean 9 Strongylocentrotus; a sea urchin lO Ophiocoma; a brittle star lO A whelk shell covered with seaweeds, hydroids and tube- building worms (found in a tide pool) II Pentaca; a sea cucumber I2 Sea squirt; attached to a fragment of a clam shell (photo- graph taken in the water) 13 Seaweed debris left at the tide marks 22 Orchestia, the sand flea . 23 The white anemone 28 Hole drilled in the sh
. Dwellers of the sea and shore. Marine animals. ILLUSTRATIONS Ccelenterates Frontispiece FACK A promising spot for the naturalist 5 Colony of barnacles living on a rock G Caprella; a small shore crustacean 9 Strongylocentrotus; a sea urchin lO Ophiocoma; a brittle star lO A whelk shell covered with seaweeds, hydroids and tube- building worms (found in a tide pool) II Pentaca; a sea cucumber I2 Sea squirt; attached to a fragment of a clam shell (photo- graph taken in the water) 13 Seaweed debris left at the tide marks 22 Orchestia, the sand flea . 23 The white anemone 28 Hole drilled in the shell of a mussel by a moon snail ... 32 Moon snail (photograph taken in the water) 33 Moon snail withdrawn in its shell. The dark area in the opening of the shell is the operculum, or "door," which protects the animal from without 34 Mussel attached to a rock 35 Radula, or rasping organ of the moon snail (greatly en- larged) 38 Egg case of the moon snail 40 Eggs of the moon snail (highly magnified). The individual eggs can be seen as the small black bodies contained in the larger cells 42 xi. 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 Crowder, William, 1882-. New York, The Macmillan Company
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