What is "crustaceans"

Usage examples of "crustaceans".

I picked out five bladders which seemed very full, and found in them four, five, eight, and ten crustaceans, and in the fifth a single much elongated larva.

In the first lot, my son examined seventeen bladders, including prey of some kind, and eight of these contained entomostracan crustaceans, three larvae of insects, one being still alive, and six remnants of animals so much decayed that their nature could not be distinguished.

There was a lot of life to see less than a few feet from his nose: tiny crustaceans crawling through the gently bobbing mat, the flash of falling sunlight off the silver sides of small fish, the fine patterns of jellyfish drifting near the surface like abandoned, sodden doilies of fine lace.

Cohn one evening into water swarming with crustaceans, and by the next morning most of the bladders contained these animals entrapped and swimming round and round their prisons.

The prey, therefore, judging from these five bladders, consists exclusively of freshwater crustaceans, most of which appeared to be distinct species from those found in the bladders of the two former species.

Cohn has recently found within the leaves of naturally growing plants many kinds of crustaceans and larvae.

Cohn, namely that when rather large crustaceans are caught between the closing lobes, they are pressed so hard whilst making their escape that they often void their sausageshaped masses of excrement, which were found within most of the leaves.

To ascertain whether the valves were endowed with irritability, the surfaces of several were scratched with a needle or brushed with a fine camelhair brush, so as to imitate the crawling movement of small crustaceans, but the valve did not open.

It is difficult to conjecture what can attract so many creatures, animal and vegetablefeeding crustaceans, worms, tardigrades, and various larvae, to enter the bladders.

On the other hand, it must be stated that in three bladders containing dead crustaceans, the processes were likewise empty.

My son examined the quadrifid processes in a bladder containing the remains of two crustaceans, and found some of them full of spherical or irregularly shaped masses of matter, which were observed to move and to coalesce.

She would have thanked the hardworking crustaceans who had joined together to drag them clear of the valley, but how did one thank a crab?

The floor was ceramic tile, embossed with starfish and crustaceans painted in Mediterranean blue.

Fish were less frequent, but wampuses were commonfeeding, Linda said, on tiny crustaceans that thrived in this cold climateas well as furry creatures that dived through the waters or came out to lie upon the land and bask in the arctic sun.

Within resided a number of crustaceans, which, when broiled, were considered a notable delicacy.