. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 442 Artemia salina, (Cancer salintts, Linn., Montague, in Trans. Linn. Soc, 9. pi. 14,) [the Brine Shrimp] is a very small Crustaceous animal, commonly found in the salt pans at Lymington, in England, when the evaporation of the water is considerably advanced. [Latreille observed that we were in possession of very imperfect characters of this little species. More recently, however, Dr. J. V. Thompson has minutely examined its struc- ture,
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 442 Artemia salina, (Cancer salintts, Linn., Montague, in Trans. Linn. Soc, 9. pi. 14,) [the Brine Shrimp] is a very small Crustaceous animal, commonly found in the salt pans at Lymington, in England, when the evaporation of the water is considerably advanced. [Latreille observed that we were in possession of very imperfect characters of this little species. More recently, however, Dr. J. V. Thompson has minutely examined its struc- ture, and has traced the gradual developement of this singular animal, which, when full grown, is about half an inch in length, with a highly polished surface. " Nature having con- structed them with members solely adapted for swimming, they seem to be in perpetual quest of prey, gliding with an almost even motion through the water, and moving with equal indifference and facility on the back, belly, and sides; the shape of the animal, the undu- lating movements of its fins, and the glossy appearance of its coat, renders it an object of a very interesting ;—Thompson. M. V. Audouin has published some additional and equally interesting details of it in the Annates des Sciences Naturelles for 1837.] Branchipus, Latr. (Chirocephalus, B. Prevost), have the eyes placed at the end of elongated peduncles; the body long, narrow, and com- pressed, the head distinct from the thorax, with its organs varying in Fig. salina, in different stages. the sexeSj with tw0 projections between the eyes; eleven pairs of legs, and the tail terminated by two ciliated, elongated plates. In both sexes the body is nearly filiform, composed of a head separated from the thorax by a kind of neck, of a thorax channelled beneath, and divided, at least on the upper side, into eleven segments, not including the neck, each of which supports a pair of very compressed bran- ch
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