 Indeed, limpets are often serviceable to one another by thus clearing away esculents growing upon their shells. To secure a dinner, a good deal of licking is requisite, and perhaps this habit may help to account for the inordinate length of the tongue-ribbon....  The American Naturalist - Página 5201885Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 688 páginas
...discovered, it is gradually licked quite clean. If the patch happens to be the surface of a moderate-sized barnacle, the circular lip is completely spread over...flat part of the thallus was seized by the lip (as a traveller might commence on a colossal sandwich), and being, I suppose, held firmly by the upper jaw,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 662 páginas
...tongue-ribbon. Certainly it must be used up at a very great rate. But this is not the only, though I believe'the chief, way in which the limpet feeds. Those individuals...flat part of the thallus was seized by the lip (as a traveller might commence on a colossal sandwich), and being, 1 suppose, held firmly by the upper jaw,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 760 páginas
...must be used up at a ver)' great rate. But this is not the only, though I believe' the chief, way j in which the limpet feeds. Those individuals which...flat part of the thallus was seized by the lip (as a traveller might commence on a colossal sandwich), and being, I suppose, held firmly by the upper jaw,... | |
 | 1885 - 670 páginas
...sweeps its elongated snout from side to side, feeling probably for suitable patches. Those limpets which live near large seaweeds, such as Fucus, feed extensively upon them. They do not feed when covered by water, but always settle down firmly before the tide rises. It was... | |
 | Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1885 - 660 páginas
...sweeps its elongated snout from side to side, feeling probably for suitable patches. Those limpets which live near large seaweeds, such as Fucus, feed extensively upon them. They do not feed when covered by water, but always settle down firmly before the tide rises. It was... | |
 | 1885 - 526 páginas
...chief, way in which the limpet feeds. Those individuals which live near large sea-weeds, such as P'ucus, feed extensively upon them, as their gnawed condition...flat part of the thallus was seized by the lip (as a traveller might commence on a colossal sandwich), and being, I suppose, held firmly by the upper jaw,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 650 páginas
...discovered, it is gradually licked quite clean. If the patch happens to be the surface of a moderate-sized barnacle, the circular lip is completely spread over...flat part of the thallus was seized by the lip (as a traveller might commence on a colossal sandwich), and being, I suppose, held firmly by the upper jaw,... | |
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