 | Geology - 1841 - 488 pages
...coralline, will keep that branch exclusively to itself, and will defend it with the greatest vigour against all intruders. It fixes itself to its resting-place...the rapidity of lightning, to seize with its long antennae some minute crustaceous animal, and returns to its resting-place to devour its prey at pleasure.... | |
 | Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood - Arthrostraca - 1868 - 600 pages
...which the animal is placed. The ordinary and natural mode of progression of these animals is swimming. It is amusing to see one of these animals resting...posture, on a branch of coralline, by means of its true feet, waving its body backwards and forwards, throwing about its long, inferior antennae, and ever... | |
 | Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood - Arthrostraca - 1868 - 612 pages
...which the animal is placed. The ordinary and natural mode of progression of these animals is swimming. It is amusing to see one of these animals resting...posture, on a branch of coralline, by means of its true feet, waving its body backwards and forwards, throwing about its long, inferior antennae, and ever... | |
 | Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood - Arthrostraca - 1868 - 610 pages
...which the animal is placed. The ordinary and natural mode of progression of these animals is swimming. It is amusing to see one of these animals resting in an erect posture, on a brunch of coralline, by means of its true feet, waving its body backwards and forwards, throwing about... | |
 | United States Fish Commission - Fisheries - 1879 - 1184 pages
...the dredge I have procured specimens * * * * alive, and have kept them in glass jars of sea- water with sand and corallines, and have thus been enabled...the rapidity of lightning, to seize with its long anteuuse some minute crustaceous animal, and returns to its resting-place to devour its prey at pleasure.... | |
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When it falls to the bottom of the vessel, it fixes its long pointed antennae firmly into the sand, and, with the assistance of the true feet, drags and pushes itself forward. This, however, may not be a natural mode of progression, but may be adopted... 