. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. 4:58 RADIATA : FIG. 689. SUB-SECTION II. THE OEDER OF CTENOPHOR^ OR BEROID MEDUSAE. THE Beroid Medusas are more or less spherical, or melon-shaped, with eight rows of locomotive fringes di- viding the surface of the body as the ribs divide the surface of a melon. Pleurobrachia is one of the most common kinds on the north- east coast of the United States, and in its movements and curi- ous appendages is one of the most wonderful of all the Me- dusse. It is transparent, and besides the eight rows of fringes, it has two most extraordinary te
. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. 4:58 RADIATA : FIG. 689. SUB-SECTION II. THE OEDER OF CTENOPHOR^ OR BEROID MEDUSAE. THE Beroid Medusas are more or less spherical, or melon-shaped, with eight rows of locomotive fringes di- viding the surface of the body as the ribs divide the surface of a melon. Pleurobrachia is one of the most common kinds on the north- east coast of the United States, and in its movements and curi- ous appendages is one of the most wonderful of all the Me- dusse. It is transparent, and besides the eight rows of fringes, it has two most extraordinary tentacles; and no form of ex- pansion or contraction, or curve, or spiral, can be conceived of which these tentacles do not as- sume. Bolina and Idyia are other ctenophorse common on the north-east coast of the United States. The Rose-colored Idyia is three or four inches long, and rteuroi>racMarhociodactyia,Ag&saiZ. shaped somewhat like a melon with one end cut off; and the mouth occupies the whole of the cut-off end, and the digestive cavity, or stomach, occupies a large part of the. 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 Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877. New York : Scribner
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