Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 252
gs study. It is inclosed in a glassy-shell (lorica) of a long oval form, from which rises on thefront half of the back a thin ridge, which in the middlehas a height nearly equal to half the diameter of the body,but tapers off at each end. Its base is corrugated withwrinkles. This is not set on… … WHIPTAIL. The head of the animal is rounded, and divided intoseveral blunt eminences or lobes, which are set with cilia;these rotate constantly, but irregularly and feebly, and donot make manifest wheels, as Brachionus does. A smallantenna projects from the back of the head, capable ofbeing erected…
Zoology · Microscopy
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