A Year at the Shore

by Philip Henry Gosse

[113] Solaster papposa, represented, about one-third of the natural size, by the right-hand figure on Plate [XXV.]

[114] Ophiocoma granulata, seen in the upper left-hand corner of Plate [XXV.]

[115] Gonoplax angulatus, the principal figure in Plate [XXVI.], occupying the foreground.

[116] Ebalia; a male specimen of E. Bryerii is represented in Plate [XXVI.], clinging to the stem of an aged tangle, in the upper left-hand corner.

[117] E. Pennantii.

[118] Aquarium (2d Ed.), p. 154.

[119] Pagurus Bernhardus; so called, I presume, from Bernard, the monk, in allusion to its passing its life in its cell: whence also “Hermit-crab.”

[120] In Plate [XXVII.] both species are represented. In the foreground is a full-grown Pagurus Prideauxii tenanting a whelk-shell, which carries a fine specimen of the Cloak Anemone (Adamsia palliata). In the distance is seen P. Bernhardus, inhabiting a shell of Natica.

[121] See my Aquarium, p. 156, et seq.

[122] These facts were originally published in the Zoologist for 1859 (p. 6580). In the Quarterly Journal of Science for January 1864, some observations of Colonel Stuart Wortley are cited, confirmatory of mine, which, however, are wholly ignored by the Editors.