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Marvels of pond-life : or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps, infusoria, rotifers, water-bears, and polyzoa (1861)

Slack, Henry James, 1818-1896 · London : Groombridge · leaf 108

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he took to crawling, or rather running,over a thread of conferva, and then his back was CH.^TONOTUS LARUS. 83 elegantly arched, and his cilia stood erect like thequills of a porcupine. This was the Chwtonotuslarus. In Pritchards Infusoria, the views of thosewriters are followed who rank this animal… … Chaetonotus larus, (swimming.) whatever to the so-called wheels of the ordinaryRotifers, nor is there anything like the gizzardwhich true Rotifers present. Ehrenberg treated itas a Rotifer, and Dujardin placed it among theInfusoria, in a particular class, comprehending sym-metrical organisms. The…

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