Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.
Defn: Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.
Defn: A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales.
Professor Semper found some in the skin of a holothurian (Stichopus variegatus), which he considered incapable of nourishing themselves otherwise than at the expense of their host.
These singular fishes have been long noticed, but it was not till recently that their presence in a host so low in the scale as a holothurian could be explained.
The perforation so formed, becomes the micropyle of the Holothurian egg, which was first discovered by Joh.
The transverse ciliated rings of the Holothurian and Crinoid larvae are of no importance in the comparison between the trochosphere larvae and the larvae of Echinodermata, since such rings are frequently secondarily developed.
The holothurian has a water-vascular system, the madreporic plate being near the mouth, but not opening to the outside, and a nervous system which starts from a ring which lies around the mouth.
This holothurian is bright red in color, and when expanded is a beautiful object, perhaps the most attractive in appearance of any in the class.
Around the oral opening of the Holothurian there are appendages capable of the most extraordinary changes, which seem at first to be peculiar to these animals, and to have no affinity with any corresponding feature in the same Class.
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