Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the Geology and Geography of the Islands, and the Native and Introduced Plants and Animals of the Group
Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the Geology and Geography of the Islands, and the Native and Introduced Plants and Animals of the Group
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... up on the tines of a rake. They are much sought by zoologists owing to their primitive chordate characters, but uninformed collectors would place them at once among the worms. If specimens are carefully collected and placed in a jar of sea water and sand, they make interesting exhibits in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... up on the tines of a rake. They are much sought by zoologists owing to their primitive chordate characters, but uninformed collectors would place them at once among the worms. If specimens are carefully collected and placed in a jar of sea water and sand, they make interesting exhibits in the schoolroom or laboratory. chapter xxxvii. plants and animals from the coral reef: part two. The Hawaiian reefs abound in representatives of the phylum, i including such odd and diverse animals as the starfish, sea-urchins, brittle-stars and the sea-cucumbers. The curious bleached white skeletons of the sea-urchins, with the beautiful lace-like pattern pierced in fine holes over the biscuit-shaped shell or test, are among the objects picked up with shells and seaweed on the sand beach. They are hardly to be recognized, however, as the remains of the spiny sea-urchin so often stepped on by incautious bathers. They arc the "hedge-hogs" of the sea, since the numerous calcareous plates forming the shell are covered in the several species with variously-shaped spines. These spines serve the ina, as the sea-urchins are called by the natives, as a means of protection, and in certain species they are used to assist in boring the burrows often inhabited by them in the solid rock below low-tide. Sea-urchtns. The common forms are a black species,2 or ina eleele, and a whitish form,3 ina keokeo. They both are very plentiful on the coral reefs about Honolulu and are gathered and eaten by the natives. If one is taken alive from its hiding place beneath the loose stones on the outer edge of the reef and examined, the spines will be found to move on a ball-and-socket joint. The tubercles on the test forming the at
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