A Year at the Shore

by Philip Henry Gosse

[63] Jones’s Animal Kingdom, p. 90.

[64] This species, together with the following, is represented on Plate [XV.]; the latter coiled among the stones, and preparing to attack a Serpula.

[65] Glaucus, p. 103.

[66] Aplysia punctata, of which two specimens, one viewed sidewise, and the other mounting an angle of rock, showing the front of its head, are depicted in Plate [XVI.] Sowerby applied the name of “hybrida” to the species, and Forbes and Hanley have adopted it; but even the inflexible law of priority does not warrant the perpetuation of a name which is glaringly absurd, and expresses a manifest contradiction; for if the creature were a hybrid, it would not be a species, and not be entitled to a specific name.

[67] Outlines of Comp. Anatomy, p. 371.

[68] De Anim. Marin., quoted in Johnston’s Introd. to Conchology, p. 18.

[69] This animal will be described in a subsequent chapter.

[70] Journal of Researches, chap. i.

[71] Johnston.

[72] Dentalium entalis, represented at the right-hand corner of the foreground in Plate [XVII.]