. Popular history of the aquarium of marine and fresh-water animals and plants . IHorar^ vxab , Pagarus ijemKarias .in a shell cif tile v\rtie[k., sra:Tacninijedl3\ aji-Anemanfi,Sa^artiaparasiticaL, and studdealayBalaxii. samewithdra-vm 3 Hie samem. a shell of ? ? SEA-CUCOJBERS. 157 to the more favourable inclination of the sunbeams at thisearly hour/^ Sea-Cucumbees.—(Plate X.) Sea-Cucumbers, or Holothuriadce, form an order of theclass EcJdmdermata, approaching, in some characteristics^the AcLiniadm, through such genera as Peachia and Ed-wardsia; and, on the other hand, the
. Popular history of the aquarium of marine and fresh-water animals and plants . IHorar^ vxab , Pagarus ijemKarias .in a shell cif tile v\rtie[k., sra:Tacninijedl3\ aji-Anemanfi,Sa^artiaparasiticaL, and studdealayBalaxii. samewithdra-vm 3 Hie samem. a shell of ? ? SEA-CUCOJBERS. 157 to the more favourable inclination of the sunbeams at thisearly hour/^ Sea-Cucumbees.—(Plate X.) Sea-Cucumbers, or Holothuriadce, form an order of theclass EcJdmdermata, approaching, in some characteristics^the AcLiniadm, through such genera as Peachia and Ed-wardsia; and, on the other hand, the Star-fishes and the latter they more properly belong. In short,, Pro-fessor Porbes considers a Sea-Cucumber in the light of asoft Echinus and long-bodied Star-fish combined. True Starfishes J Echini, and Holothuriadce, all possessand use, as one means of progression, rows of movable fila-ments, which are contractile, and have at their tips httlesucker-discs. In the latter, to which class our Pentacta,or Cucumaria, belongs, these suckers are arranged in fivero
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