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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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r of known Crustacea, having a filiform body, with very largeglobular eyes placed at the extremity of very long and laterally extended fuot-stalks; and the legs are exceedinglyslender and short. According to Slabber, whose figure of one of the species has been overlooked by all Crustace-ologists, there are eight pairs of legs of equal size.] Cryptopus, Latr., has the carapax subovoid, swollen, bent under at the sides, enveloping the body, as wellas the antennae and legs, having only on the under side a longitudinal slit. The eyes are wide apart. Thelegs are like flattened threads, with a lateral appendage. Type, C. Defranciiy Latr. Mediterranean, In others, the eyes are hidden. Tiie intermediate antennae conical, exarticulated, and very short. The lateralantennae composed of a peduncle and a filament, without distinct articulations : their base is not protected by aporrected scale.Mulcio, Latr., has the body very soft; thorax ovoid; legs Uke flattened threads, the majority with an ap-
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-Mysia vulgaris, about twa, oae of the bihd leg». • (Many additionRl geoera have been added to the Carides by Poly-dure Roux in his Afimoire iut la Ctassifivatioti des (Wuitacla de laTribu des Salicoquet, Marseilles, 1831; and by Milne Edwards in theAnnale$ des Sciencei Nuturettet, and Hisl. Nat. des Crustacii. Ofthese it will be necessary only to uotice those of Sicyonia, nearlyallied to Penaius, but diflfering from it and all the other genera inhaving no appendages to the false subabdominal legs, and in the modi-fications of its respiratory apparatus, there being only eleven pairs ofbranchiffi instead of eighteen. Sergestes and ylcelcs—in which theposterior pair of true legs is almost rudimental, or entirely obsolete,the outer pair of foot jaws being immensely developed, so as to consti-tute an anterior pair of legs to supply their place. These genera arefounder! upon exotic species.] [Here terminates, in the system of M. Edwardn, the great order ofDecapod Crustacea, which, in
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