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"Crustacean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vouched for by people far more careful of their facts than Hamed—fish which have intruded themselves on the oysters and have been encased in nacre. Probably the rarity which fell into Hamed's hands was the pearly presentment of a crustacean, for marine frogs are infinitely rarer than pearls. Several molluscs admit tenants, one particular species a rotund crab; but in the case in point the wrong mansion was entered and, so to ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... all the work connected with the species question already detailed, Huxley published three paleontological papers ("On the new Labyrinthodonts from the coal-field of Edinburgh"; "On a Stalk-eyed Crustacean from the coal-fields of Paisley"; and "On the Teeth of Diprotodon."), while the paper on the "Anatomy and Development of Pyrosoma," first read on December 1, 1859, was now published in the "Proceedings of ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... body, on the other a relative of the elegant, many-whorled TURRITELLA forgetting its high station and degenerating to the likeness of a worm. No doubt it is really a case of degeneration from the acquirement of fixed habits, just as when a lively young crustacean larva gives up its free independent life and glues its head to a stone—what happens? Why, he becomes a mere barnacle instead of a spritely shrimp as he might have been! Let mankind ...
— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield |
Words linked to "Crustacean" : green gland, decapod, ostracod, seed shrimp, branchiopodan, decapod crustacean, mussel shrimp, brachyuran, branchiopod, stomatopod, barnacle, cirripede, class Crustacea, crustaceous, copepod, nipper, pincer, chela, stomatopod crustacean, Crustacea |
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