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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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ch is covered with a fleshy ring, armed with horny laminae as sharp as a knife. The common species is found on Fums natans, or gulf-weed,wherever this appears. The Glaucus, Forster,Have the elongate body and the vents as in the preceding ; four minute conical tentacula; and on eachside [two or] three branchia;, each formed of long fringes ar-ranged like a fan, and by whose means tliey swim. They are^ little charming Molluscs of the Mediterranean and IndianOcean, agreeably painted with azure-blue and silver, and swimwith great quickness on their backs. Their anatomy closelyresembles that of Tritonia. The species have not, as yet, beensatisfactorily distinguished. The Laniogeriis, Blainv., has, on each side, two series of littleplates, finely divided in a pectinate manner, which arethebranchiic.Ihe body is shorter and thicker than in Glaucus, but they have itsfour little tentacula. The Eolidia, Cuv.,Fis. 168.-Gi.ucus Forsteri. Resemble little slugs, with four tentacula above, and two on
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