Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1871-1954 · New York, R. M. McBride & co. · leaf 220
of all the rounded, rapidlyswimming animals like Fig. 27D are really bar-nacles. It invariably surprises the amateur natu-ralist to learn that such things as starfishes, sea-urchins, oysters, and barnacles swim about, for weare so accustomed to thinking of them as slow-mov-ing, sluggish, or fixed… … Fig. 27A. Young crab. B. Young oyster. C. Young starfish. D. Young barnacle similar to crabs, lobsters, and shrimps. About theonly difference is that barnacles develop shells withinwhich to dwell and settle down to a sedentary lifein one spot instead of leading a nomadic existencelike their cousins…
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