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 84
food. Sometimes the end of the tailacted as a sucker, and fixed the animal tightly to PTERODINA PATINA. 61 the glass, when the wheels were protruded, and thebody swayed to and fro. Then the sucker actionceased, and as the creature swam away, a tuft ofcilia was thrust out from the extremity of the… … Pterodina patina—gizzaid. be useless if the little fidget could not be keptstill. The size of the creature, whose name we may aswell mention was Pterodina patina^ rendered thispracticable, but required some care. The longestdiameter of the body, which was not quite round,was about 1-120, so that it…
Microscopy · Freshwater animals
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