Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 795
remity of which is the narroworifice of the mouth ; which seems to be furnished with vibratilecilia, that serve to draw into it the semi-fluid aliment. Instead ofbeing furnished (as in the higher Crustaceans) with two pairs ofantennae and numerous pairs of feet-jaws, it has but a single pairof… … Ammotheapycnogonoides:—a, narrow oesophagus; b, stomach;c, intestine ; rf, digestive ceeca of the feet-jaws; e, e, digestivecaeca of the legs. joints, and terminated by a hooked claw; and by these membersthe animal drags itself slowly along, instead of walking activelyupon them like a crab. The…
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