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 383
, as in T. crassicornis, anexample of which I now show you,the posterior extremity runs off to afinely-attenuated point, the whole of the spire visibleeven to the last; the whole bearing no small resemblanceto a multispiral shell, such as one of the Cerithiadce orTwrritelladae. The ecthoreum is… … CNIDA OF CORYXACTIS. sea-anemones: their weapons. 371 the Mrhole had been run off. So exceedingly subtle arethe walls of the cnidce, that it was not until after manyobservations that I detected them; in an example fromT. crassicornis, which had discharged about half of thewire, I could not see the…
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