"Crustacean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are, however, very active, swimming by means of two pairs of legs. They also possess two pairs of antennae and one eye. (The species belonging to the genus Candona of the family Cypridae, do not swim.) Cyclops is another very small crustacean, shaped like a large-headed club. It swims very actively, and, like the Cypridae, is an excellent article of diet for very young fish. Both these crustacea live in stagnant water, and must, therefore, be kept in a separate pond, whence ...
— Amateur Fish Culture • Charles Edward Walker
... in what are supposed to be the oldest rocks, the animal remains which are found are almost always confined to four forms—'Oldhamia', whose precise nature is not known, whether plant or animal; 'Lingula', a kind of mollusc; 'Trilobites', a crustacean animal, having the same essential plan of construction, though differing in many details from a lobster or crab; and Hymenocaris, which is also a crustacean. So that you have all the 'Fauna' reduced, at this period, to four forms: one a kind of animal or plant that we ...
— The Method By Which The Causes Of The Present And Past Conditions Of Organic Nature Are To Be Discovered.--The Origination Of Living Beings • Thomas H. Huxley
... time to plant salsify, or the vegetable oyster, as it has been aptly named from its crustacean flavour so dear to herbaceous boarders. This may be still further accentuated by planting it in soil containing lime, chalk or ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, November 17, 1920 • Various
... remains of animals, constructed on the same general plan as the lobster, and belonging to the same great group of Crustacea; but for the most part totally different from the lobster, and indeed from any other living form of crustacean; and thus we gain a notion of that successive change of the animal population of the globe, in past ages, which is the most striking fact revealed ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... memorable occasion. And why not? It was a question that appealed directly to man's appetite, and there he is always interested. After the morning hour a dozen ready debators sprang to their feet, eloquent in advocating the rights of this important member of the crustacean family. The discussion waxed into something like enthusiasm, when finally an old tar exclaimed with terrific violence: "Mr. Speaker, I insist upon it, this question must be considered. It is a great question; one before which all others will sink into insignificance; one of vastly more ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
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