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Elegant Flower Polyp ( Floscularia ornata ), at 200-fold enlargement.

Elegant Flower Polyp ( Floscularia ornata ), at 200-fold enlargement..jpg Four-horned turtle bearerThumbnailsBridgeworms - a) Bonellia viridis. B) Phascolosoma vulgare. C) Priapulus caudatusFour-horned turtle bearerThumbnailsBridgeworms - a) Bonellia viridis. B) Phascolosoma vulgare. C) Priapulus caudatusFour-horned turtle bearerThumbnailsBridgeworms - a) Bonellia viridis. B) Phascolosoma vulgare. C) Priapulus caudatusFour-horned turtle bearerThumbnailsBridgeworms - a) Bonellia viridis. B) Phascolosoma vulgare. C) Priapulus caudatusFour-horned turtle bearerThumbnailsBridgeworms - a) Bonellia viridis. B) Phascolosoma vulgare. C) Priapulus caudatusFour-horned turtle bearerThumbnailsBridgeworms - a) Bonellia viridis. B) Phascolosoma vulgare. C) Priapulus caudatusFour-horned turtle bearerThumbnailsBridgeworms - a) Bonellia viridis. B) Phascolosoma vulgare. C) Priapulus caudatus
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Elegant Flower Polyp ( Floscularia ornata ), at 200-fold enlargement.

Ornamental Flower Polyp ( Floscularia ornata ) depicted is a representative of a last large family, known as Tube inhabitants ( Tubicolariae), since they are, at least for the most part, surrounded by a shell. The most remarkable phenomenon they offer is the very strong modification of their gear. On five conical protrusions from the head edge one sees bundles of long hair, which do not deserve the name of cilia, because they are stiff and almost immobile. Almost in the funnel of the mouth is the ring of cilia, which supplies food to the animal. This is surrounded by a fine, jelly-like tube, into which it, like the members of related genera, can retract by sliding the foot together.

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The Life of the Animals, Part 3, Chapter 6
The Worms
By AE Brehm
Captions are translated from the original Dutch by online means
Available from gutenberg.org
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