Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora and Myriopoda exhibited in the Dept. of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).

  • British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Guide to the Crustacea, Arachnida, Onychophora and Myriopoda exhibited in the Dept. of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    includes the species of Iclotea common on the British coasts, one Table- of which is shown in a coloured drawing hung in Wall-case No. 6. No- 6* The family Arcturidcce are remarkable for the long and sub- cylindrical body, very unlike that of the ordinary Isopods, and also for the great size of the antennae, on which the young cluster as in the specimen of Arcturus baffini (Fig. 25) exhibited here. The Sub-order Oniscoidea comprises the familar “ Woodlice ” Fig. 24. Piece of timber from Hyde pier, showing damage caused by Limnoria and Chelura. [Wall-case No. 4.] or “ Slaters ” so common in gardens. They are terrestrial animals adapted for breathing air, and sometimes having, in the abdominal limbs, tufted air-tubes like the “tracheae” of insects, which serve as respiratory organs. The terminal limbs of the abdomen are slender or minute, and the antennules are always small. The large “ Sea-slater,” Ligia oceanica, which is always found near the sea and sometimes actually in rock pools, is intermediate in many points of structure, as it is in habits, between the exclusively