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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife419181919baus (find matches)
Year: 1918-1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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134 aquatic ILitc Ehrenberg classed them as "Infusoria," but that was a century ago, when the uni- cellular animals, the Protozoa, were not definitely understood. Similar looking creatures were grouped together, and as one-celled ciliated infusoria frequently re- call many rotifers in appearance, all were promptly put together as of one ralation- with certain larval forms of the Trocho- phora type. In them the cilia are at first much developed, but in the end are re- stricted to certain localities of the body, one of which appears constant about the mouth. Hence the conclusion that our wheel animalcules are exceedingly primi- tive forms, with close relations to the pro-
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Sonnet to A Goldfish' MART BURDITT Epitome of all the art of Asia, Slow waving tins of black and silver sheen. And gold-rimmed eyes a-staring mid the green; A wealth of grace and beauty without measure, A living, moving, Oriental treasure. A surfeit to mine eyes, a happy mesne Betwixt the Hare of life and death's dull screen, O, mute, mysterious object of my pleasure! Thy scales, g'lt-edged—a sparkling coat of mail. Thy satiu browns inlaid witli burnished crescents. Thou fragile, glistening, sheeny, languid tiling. With scarlet gills and gently flowing tail; Pose on. small fish, in shimmering golden essence, Joy to mine eye, rest to my spirit bring. 1 ship. Today the rotifers are classed near the worms, that great class or group of animals which still serves as a catch-all for the zoologist. Here is placed every- thing which cannot be definitely associ- ated elsewhere. We know that these ani- mals are many-celled and highly organ- ized, and offer as an excuse for their po- sition among the w'irms their affinities genitors of the phylum or genealogical tree of the Vermes (worms). The rotifers have a motile dental ap- paratus, a stomach of many cells, an in- testine, salivary and renal glands, brain, nerves and red eyes. The microscope *The specimen illustrated, a Feather-tail or Japanese Nymph Goldfish, was bred in Aus- tralia by Albert Gale, Esq.

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