Ecological animal geography; an authorized, Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage ecologicalanimal00hess Year: 1937 THE BENTHAL 217 the gasteropods in the Indo-Pacific is governed by that of the coral reefs, on which the molluscan fauna is especially Besides the above-named Leptoconchus and Magilus, the family Coralliophilidae is especially adapted to life in the reefs, the different forms belonging to it having lost their radulae in adaptation to feeding on the coralline slime, for which teeth are not neede
Ecological animal geography; an authorized, Ecological animal geography; an authorized, rewritten edition based on Tiergeographie auf ockologischer grundlage ecologicalanimal00hess Year: 1937 THE BENTHAL 217 the gasteropods in the Indo-Pacific is governed by that of the coral reefs, on which the molluscan fauna is especially Besides the above-named Leptoconchus and Magilus, the family Coralliophilidae is especially adapted to life in the reefs, the different forms belonging to it having lost their radulae in adaptation to feeding on the coralline slime, for which teeth are not needed. Some predaceous chaetopod worms which live concealed in the reefs are characterized by a remarkable mode of reproduction. The palolo worm, Eunice viridis (Fig. 45), of the South Seas may serve as ex- ample. The eggs and sperm are developed only in the posterior division of the worm, and these parts are cast off when mature, when they leave
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