"Crustacea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... distinguished were—man, viviparous quadrupeds, oviparous quadrupeds, birds, fishes, Cetacea, Cephalopoda, Malacostraca ( higher Crustacea), Insecta ( annulose animals), Testacea ( molluscs, echinoderms, ascidians). A class of Acalephae, including sea-anemones and sponges, was grouped with the Testacea. The first five groups were classed together as sanguineous, the others as exsanguineous, from ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
... SEMINA albuminosa, albumine bipartibili cotyledonibus foliaceis parum adhaerente, pube stellari basi vestita, inter se et fundo folliculi cohaerentia; PRIMINA laxa, tenui, fragili, apice foramine incrassato notata, SECUNDINA crustacea, demum libera chalaza magna circulari notata. EMBRYONIS ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell
... volume, I always chose Milton" ("Autobiography," page 69).); its colours are by Werner (4/3. Werner's "Nomenclature of Colours," Edinburgh, 1821.) ink black, vermilion red and buff orange. It has been a splendid cruise for me in Nat. History. Amongst the Pelagic Crustacea, some new and curious genera. In the Zoophytes some interesting animals. As for one Flustra, if I had not the specimen to back me up nobody would believe in its most anomalous structure. But as for novelty all this is nothing to a family of pelagic animals which at first sight appear like ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin |
