10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CROSSFISH»
Discover the use of
crossfish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
crossfish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Desciptive Zoological Classification
Common. Crossfish. 111. 44. Common. Crossfish. (Asterias. Rubens),. Linn. (
Dried.) The animal consists of a central disk which is prolonged into five lobes,
the so-called ' arms' or 'rays.' One surface of the specimen is hollowed out into a
deep ...
2
A history of british Starfishes and other animals of the ...
135 Brown Sea-Girkin 229 Little Crossfish . 95 Butthorn .... 130 Long-armed
Brittle-star 4.5 Cake-Urchin 178 Cirrhigrade Echinodermata Long Sea-Cucumber
. 219 71 Mermaid's Head 190 Cirrho-spinigrade Echinodermata 141 Milk-white ...
3
A Manual of Natural History, for the Use of Travellers: ...
From rocky bottoms with deep water in our own seas the Spiny-Crossfish
sometimes appears; on fishermen's lines he will often see the Common-Crossfish
busily engaged in devouring the bait ; and after the same fashion other
Echinoderms, ...
Arthur Adams, William Balfour Baikie, Charles Barron,
1854
Purple Sun Star, (Solaster endeca.) — Often met with. These, too, are frequently
of numerous and different shades of colouring, such as pink, red, brown, gray,
yellow, and, as its name denotes, purple. (Shore?) Crossfish, (Uraster rubens.) ...
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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including ...
distinguished the " violet crossfish " from the " common crossfish ; " some have
asserted that they live together, others that they are found apart; some, more
exact, have stated where they have found them living together and where they
have ...
6
Forms of animal life being outlines of zoological ...
In the inter-radial space which is opposite to the ray which is cut short, is seen the
madreporic tubercle ; and a little to Common Crossfish. 143 Dissection of
Common Crossfish (Asterias rubens), showing digestive and motor systems 143-
145.
7
Introduction to zoology
The word aster means a star, and the term asteriadce is applied to the third family
; — that to which the true starfishes, or those which are typical of the class, belong
. If we take from our cabinets a dried specimen of the common crossfish ...
THE best known of all Star-Fishes, is doubtless the species above represented,
called the Common CrossFish. This animal is abundant on most parts of our
shores. We have found it in considerable numbers on the Hampshire coast; and it
is ...
9
Fundamentals of Biogeography
Two encrusting sponges (Suberites rubrus and Suberites luridus) protect the
queen scallop (Chlamys opercularis) from predation by a starfish, the common
crossfish (Asterias rubens) (Pond 1992). They probably do so by making it
difficult for ...
Richard John Huggett,
2002
10
The Standard Natural History from Amoeba to Man...
In the Crossfish these spines are all separate, but in many Starfishes they occur
in clusters on a single stalk, like the bristles at the end of a paint-brush : these
spine-clusters are known as paxillae. In the interstices of the plates are pads of
skin ...
William Plane Pycraft,
1931