. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 394 ANNELIDES. Pleione, Sav. (Amphitiome, Blainv.), which, with the same tentacles, have crest-like gills. These also are from the East Indies, and attain a great size. To these may be added Eiiphrosine, Sav., which has but one tentacle to the head, together with arbuscular gills, verj much developed and complicated ; and to which the genus Anisteria, Sav., established on a mutilated individual, should probably be approximated ; and, lastly, Hipponoe
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 394 ANNELIDES. Pleione, Sav. (Amphitiome, Blainv.), which, with the same tentacles, have crest-like gills. These also are from the East Indies, and attain a great size. To these may be added Eiiphrosine, Sav., which has but one tentacle to the head, together with arbuscular gills, verj much developed and complicated ; and to which the genus Anisteria, Sav., established on a mutilated individual, should probably be approximated ; and, lastly, Hipponoe, Audouin & Edwards, which, devoid of caruncle, has only one cirrhus and packet of bristles to each foot. There is one at Port Jackson, H. Gaudichaudii, Aud. & Fitf. 203.—Eujilirosinc laureate. Eunice, Cuv.— Is likewise furnished with tuft-like gills, but the trunk is formidably armed with three pairs of differently-formed horny jaws; each of their feet has two cirrhi and a bundle of bristles; and there are five tentacles upon the head above the mouth and two on the neck. Some species only exhibit two small eyes. M. Savigny's family of Eunices is constituted by this division, and the particular genus is termed by him Leodice. A species, from one to four feet in length, inhabits the sea around the Antilles (, Cuv.), which is the largest Annelide known. Some upon our coasts are much smaller. M. Savigny distinguishes by the name of Marphisia certain species, otherwise very similar, which have no nuchal tentacles, and the upper cirrhus of which is very short, as Xereis sanguinea, Montagu. An allied species (N. tubicola, Mullur), inhabits a horny tube. After these genera with complex branchiae, are placed those in which the organs adverted to are reduced to simple lamina?, or even to slight tubercles, or which, lastly, are represented only by the cirrhi. Some of them resemble Eunice by the powerful armature of the trunk, and by their antenna; of unequal nu
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