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| Keywords: A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast (Page 325) (5980718517).jpg THE CRESTED ANTIOPA 325 <br> -whorls of minute olive-coloured hairs The other <br> was a rare species though sufficiently ahundant here; <br> Taonia atomaria resembling a thin yellowish leaf <br> split into several divisions and cut to somewhat of <br> the shape of a fan The whole leaf is crossed by <br> many dark bro vn lines which on being magnified are <br> seen to be composed of dots clustered together in <br> this manner These are the spores or seeds of the <br> plant <br> Among the animals was a creature of exquisite <br> beauty which I now saw for the first time It was <br> the Crested Antiopa one of the naked-gilled Mollusca <br> closely allied to the Bolides some of which formed the <br> subjects of observation in an earlier part of this volume <br> The breathing organs are very numerous; they con- <br> sist of oval bags delicately pellucid arranged all <br> round the sides and front of the animal and have an <br> extremely elegant appearance Each one has a brown <br> line running through its transparent substance and is <br> tipped with silver-white The general colour of the <br> animal is pellucid-grey with spots and lines of opaque <br> white that have tlie lustre of silver It is about an <br> inch in length <br> This beautiful little animal I brought carefully <br> home and placed in one of my large glass vases of sea <br> water kept in a fit state for the support of animal life <br> by growing sea-weeds It immediately became at <br> home in its new residence and remained in good <br> health for a considerable period In about a week it <br> laid on the side of the glass just beneath the surface <br> of the water a beautiful coil of spawn whicli looked <br> like a necklace of white beads arranged in successive <br> r 2 Antennularia antennina Linnaeus 1758 accepted as Nemertesia antennina Linnaeus 1758 29378893 93094 42528 Page 325 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/29378893 1853 10 5962/bhl title 42528 Gosse Philip Henry; Hullmandel Walton NameFound Antiopa NameConfirmed Antiopa EOLID 13306610 NameBankID 4073215 NameFound Mollusca NameConfirmed Mollusca EOLID 2195 NameBankID 230454 NameFound Taonia atomaria NameConfirmed Taonia atomaria EOLID 896354 NameBankID 437534 Biodiversity Heritage Library A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast Information field Flickr tags and travel Devon England Great Britain Marine animals Smithsonian Institution Libraries SIL bhl page 29378893 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/29378893 taxonomy binomial Antennularia antennina devon england great britain sil taxonomy binomial antennularia antennina Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2011-07-27 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/5980718517 2015-09-11 05 53 36 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Nemertesia antennina A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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