Sea-shore life; The invertebrates of the New York coast

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Sand anemone (Haloclava producta syn. Halocampa producta) Identifier: seashorelifeinve00may (find matches)
Title: Sea-shore life; The invertebrates of the New York coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922 New York Zoological Society
Subjects: Marine animals
Publisher: New York : The New York zoological society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Fig. J/; wm ri:-.i:. :i) anemone. From Life.Specimens in tlie New York Aquarium. mass. Long, white, thread-like fdaments are als*extruded throughpores in the sides of the body. These filaments fFig. 20J, are calledaeontia, and bear great numbers of stinging thread-cells. The White-Armed Anemone, fSagaiiia leucolena, Fig. 21), iscommon off the Long Island coast, and extends from the Carolinasto Cape Cod. It is slender, the body being somewhat more thantwo inches long, while the tentacles are about one inch in length. 46 SEA-SHORE LIFE It lives in dark situations on the under sides of stones, or upon theshaded piles of wharves below low tide level. Sometimes, how-ever, it is found almost buried in gravel or coarse sand. The body
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Fig. 22; .SAND-A^l