Front matter
Reading edition
Frontispiece. A Jelly-fish with the fry of the Horse-mackerel (The fish have been relatively very much enlarged.)
THE STORY OF LIFE IN THE SEAS
BY SYDNEY J. HICKSON, D.Sc., F.R.S. Professor of Zoology in the Owens College, Manchester WITH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON GEORGE NEWNES, LIMITED SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND 1898
OUTLINE CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS MENTIONED IN THIS BOOK.
PROTOZOA ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ Foraminifers.
Radiolarians.
PORIFERA Sponges.
CŒLENTERATA ⎧ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎩ Sea-anemones.
Corals.
Jelly-fish.
Many of the Zoophytes.
ECHINODERMA ⎧ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎩ Asteroidea Star-fishes. Echinoidea Sea-urchins. Crinoidea Sea-lilies. Holothuroidea Trepangs.
PLATYELMIA Flukes, Tape-worms, Planarians.
CHÆTOPODA Segmented Worms and Gephyreans.
ARTHROPODA ⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ Crustacea ⎧ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎩ Copepods. Barnacles. Shrimps. Crabs. Insecta Halobates, &c.
MOLLUSCA ⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ Lamelli branchiata Bivalves. Gastropoda Whelks, &c., and Pteropods. Cephalopoda Octopuses, Cuttlefishes, &c.
TUNICATA Sea-squirts, Salps, Pyrosoma.
VERTEBRATA ⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ Pisces Fish. Amphibia Frogs. Reptilia Turtles, Crocodiles, Snakes. Aves Birds. Mammalia ⎧ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎩ Whales, Porpoises. Seals, and the terrestrial Mammals.