Mr. Bingley describes an animal of this kind, which he kept by him for some time alive; it had more than four thousandtentacula on the under sides of the rays.
Whenever he touched the tentacula with his finger, all those of that ray or limb were gradually withdrawn, but those of the other rays were not in the least affected by it.
Why has the snail fourtentacula attached to its head?
In the Land-snails, the tentacula are introvertible, and support the eyes upon their apex; the sexual apertures are blended into one.
Body depressed, with pedal filaments, tentacula and branchiæ in two longitudinal rows upon the back.
The hairs are dried branchial filaments, and therefore continue to occupy in Man, those situations only where in the lower animals branchiæ or tentacula are placed.
Their body is muscular; the tentacula not retractile; the male sexual parts open in company with the female upon the right side of the neck, as in the higher organized Snails.
The tentacula of many Snails are moved like the feet of Insects; but as they are not horny, but soft, they are turned either inside out or "vice versâ.
Those species, which dwell in fresh water, do not possess introvertible tentacula like the marine Snails, and the eyes are placed at their basis; the sexual orifices are separate.
Body inclosed within a pergamentaceous or calcareous tube with lateral bristles, branchiæ and tentacula upon the neck or head.
Tentacula and eyes, which are occasionally wanting in the preceding order, are here universally present; the sexes separate.
The nerves form a ring around the pharynx, and upon the latter are placed membranous cysts, which spirt water into the tentacula or feet as they have been called, and thereby expand them.
The tentacula are higher organized stamina, and thus occur as cilia, surrounding the oral aperture or mouth, as in the Infusoria.
On the head there are mostly annulate tentacula with muscular fibres, and frequently simple eyes.
It is probably a memento of thetentacula of the Acalephæ.
Danais Archippus has a pair of tentacula at the head, and another pair, but shorter, at the tail; and D.
At present I know no Dipterous larva that may be said to have real legs, unless we are to regard as such certain tentacula formed upon a different model from the legs of other larvae[286].
The long tentacula issuing out are upwards of a foot in length and of a bright flesh colour.
Centre of paddle-shaped part white, tentacula blue and white, fringed with dark blue at the extremity.
One of the tentacula of the animal I imagine to be the Physsophora rosacea.
These tentacula were so delicate that at the slightest touch they fell off.
Length of body (to tentaculafrom root of tail-like canal) 1.
Its top, when looked into closely, resembled some of the sea anemones; and inside of the large bright orange-coloured tentacula were placed circular rows of smaller ones.
The stinging continued during the whole time that the minutest portion of the tentacula remained adherent to the skin.
The inhabitant of the Cypræa shells has two tentacula of a conic form, and finely pointed; the foot discous, and sometimes tongue-shaped.
In Lobsters, and the species which are allied to them, great care must be exercised in preserving the tentacula or feelers which emanate from their heads, as these become very brittle after they are dried.
Certain fleshy tentacula thrown out laterally are organs of respiration.
Respiration is provided for in the Bryozoaires by the ciliate appendages which surround the mouth; they are at once tentacula and branchiæ.
When the creature is fully expanded, the tentacula become distended and elongated to about the length of the transverse diameter of the body; and they are generally darker at their extremities than towards the base.
In the prickles, or spines and tentacula (ambulacra, feet suckers), we see the external organs of the Echinodermata.
In the centre of these tentaculais the mouth, in form of a small proboscis, leading to a simple stomach surrounded by a somewhat glandular substance.
The arms of the polyps are at times subject to violent agitation: the tentacula become much excited.
The mouth in the centre of the tentacula is somewhat angular, bounded by a white ligament, a process from which encircles the base of each tentaculum, which thus seems to issue from an aperture.
This assemblage of tentacula resembles the corolla of some flowers; its form is very variable, but always truly elegant.
Those which have cilia round their margins have also cellular bands running along their bases, and most of the projectile and extensile tentacula and filaments have sacs and canals containing fluids at their roots.
Little or no resistance seemed to be offered to the passage of the blade, but as it was inserted the tentacula simultaneously began to writhe and twist.
It must have been an entire delusion on my part to have supposed that those tentacula had ever been twined about the bowl.
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