10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACTINIAE»
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Little actiniae, sometimes of a light, sometimes of a dark-brown color, were very
numerous on the plants I most closely examined ; often so thick as to completely
cover the stems. On the same plants, I also found numerous specimens of small,
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lasted much longer, and consequently extended over a larger tract, but at the
same time we can see from this that the deep-sea Actiniae are by no means
exceptionally rare. The relative abundance of the Actiniae among the deep-sea
fauna is ...
Great Britain. Challenger Office, 1882
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The Popular Science Monthly
Little actiniae, sometimes of a light, sometimes of a dark-brown color, were very
numerous on the plants I most closely examined ; often so thick as to completely
cover the stems. On the same plants, I also found numerous specimens of small,
...
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Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ...
lasted much longer, and consequently extended over a larger tract, but at the
same time we can see from this that the deep-sea Actiniae are by no means
exceptionally rare. The relative abundance of the Actiniae among the deep-sea
fauna is ...
Great Britain. Challenger Office, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, 1882
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Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of ...
Not so with the Actiniae 8) and the other Actinoid Polyps. walls of the body,
whether soft, or hardened by calcareous deposits, enclose a wide cavity, which is
divided by radiating Here the partitions into a number of chambers,
communicating ...
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Contributions to the natural history of the United States of ...
But in no Medusa is the margin of the central opening inverted into the digestive
cavity. fc Not so with the Actiniae {Fig. 8) and the other Actinoid Polyps. Here the
walls of the body, whether soft, or hardened by calcareous deposits, enclose a ...
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The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society
1891a. Haddon, A. C., and Shacrxeton, Alice M. . " Reports on the Zoological
Collections made in Torres Straits by Prof. A. C. Haddon, 1888- 1889. Actiniae : i.
Zoanthese." — Trans. Koy. Dublin Soc., vol. iv. (ser. n.). 1892. Simon, J. A. : " Ein
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The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
The actiniae are remarkably voracious: one of them will devour a substance half
as large as itself, the body being then distended far over the base. Their food
consists of fish, crabs, muscles, and other marine animals: and they also greedily
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9
Elements of Natural History: Invertebrata, &c
nal, margined with one or many rows of radiated tentacula, disappearing in
contraction, and resembling a flower in blossom. The Actiniae, which Linnams
placed among the Mollusca, are 6xed by their flattened base to marine bodies
nearly on ...
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The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with ...
The actiniae are remarkably voracious : one of them will devour a substance half
as large as itself, the body being then distended far over the base. Their food
consists of fish, crabs, muscles, and other marine animals : and they also greedily
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