The common objects of the sea shore - including hints for an aquarium (1859) (20659302052)
Summary
Title: The common objects of the sea shore : including hints for an aquarium
Identifier: commonobjectsof00wood (find matches)
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Evans, E. , wood-engraver; Stone, Robert King, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Marine biology; Marine animals; Marine plants; Aquariums
Publisher: London : Routledge, Warnes & Routledge . ..
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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BARNACLE. 161 furnished with jointed limbs, much resembling a young shrimp or crab, and swimming freely- through the water with a succession of bounds. When first discovered, the young balani were thought to be veritable crustaceans; but after careful observation they were seen to affix them- selves to the sides of the vessel in which they were placed, and straightway to change their roving life for an existence of settled quiet. Similar strange developments take place in many marine animals, but there will not be sufficient space for their discussion. The balanus has a very near relative going by the popular name of Ship-barnacle, and the
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BARNACLE. scientific title of Pentalasmis anatifera, the latter title signifying "the five-plated goose-bearer." It is called Pentalasmis, or five-plated, because its shell is composed of five distinct portions, M