. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . nevertheless thousands of them are destroyed by predatory star-fishes, who know how to get at their victims. The restless crus-taceans, ever on the outlook for a meal,often nip the siphons of the rock-dwell-ers, and a kind of worm sometimesattacks them, and, destroying the ani-mal, proceeds to occupy the empty shelland burrow. P. costfita. This species has a wide geographical range, being found from Capeod to South America, but it is not abun-dant north of Hatteras. In Florida
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . nevertheless thousands of them are destroyed by predatory star-fishes, who know how to get at their victims. The restless crus-taceans, ever on the outlook for a meal,often nip the siphons of the rock-dwell-ers, and a kind of worm sometimesattacks them, and, destroying the ani-mal, proceeds to occupy the empty shelland burrow. P. costfita. This species has a wide geographical range, being found from Capeod to South America, but it is not abun-dant north of Hatteras. In Florida it bur-rows deep in sand as well as in wood orrock. On account of its white color andsuggestive shape and sculpture, it has re-ceived the popular name of angels-wings. It grows to a length of seven oreight inches. P. tiiuif-afft. This has much the samerange as the last, but is more commonly to be found in NewEngland waters. Italso burrows in anyhard substance, orin mud above low-water mark. It isespecially commonin peat-banks. P. Californian Pho-.
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