ZOOLOGICAL GLOSSARY 



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Ablepharus. Skink: a reptile of the lizard family. 



AcANTHEPHYKA. Deep -sea shr imp: decapod crustacean. 



ACARiNA. An order of Arachnida, many of them minute and parasitic (mites, ticks). 



AccipiTER. Sparrow-hawk: bird-of-prey (Falconiformes). 



AcEREMOMo.v. Wingless, eyeless insect: Protura, 218. 



AcHiAS ROTHScHiLDi. Stalk-oyed fly: dipterous insect, 223. 



AcHOLOE. Scale-worm: free-swimming polychsete worm. 



Acinus. Water-beetle: coleopterous insect. 



AciPEXSER. Sturgeon, sterlet: chondrostean fish, 317, 



ACNIDARIA. Sub-phylum of non-stinging coelenterates, comprising the ctenophora. 



AcRiDA. Short-horn grasshopper: an orthopterous insect (Acrididse). 



Acrobat ES. Flying phalanger: marsupial. 



AciixiA. Sea-anemone: coelenterate (Anthozoa). 



Aedes. Mosquito: dipterous insect. 



^OA. A crustacean (Isopoda). 



ASoLixA PRincA. Trilobite: extinct arthropod, 157 



^scH.\A. Dragonfly: insect (Odonata), 222, 225 



AoAMA AOAMA. Agamid lizard: a lacertilian reptile, 359 



Agaricus olearius. Limiinous fungus. 



AONATHA. Class of jawless pre-fishes : the earliest vertebrates, represented today only by the 



Cyclostomata. 

 Ah.etulla PICT a. Painted tree snake: a colubrid snake. 

 AiLUROPODA MELANOLEUCA. Giant panda: carnivore (Procyonidae). 

 AiLURUs FULGENS. Panda: carnivore (Procyonidae). 

 Alaurina prolifera. Pelagic Rhabdoccele: turbellarian worm. 

 Albvrnus. Teleostean fish (Cyprinidse). 

 A. LVciDus. The bleak. 

 Alcedo. Kingfisher: Coraciiformes, 417 

 ALCiD.'E. The auk family of birds. 

 Alcwpa. Free-swimming polychsete worm. 

 Alligator. Reptile, crocodilian. 

 Allolobophora. OHgochsete worm. 

 Alouatta. Howling monkey: Primate (Cebidse). 

 Alytes obstetricaas. Obstetric toad: anuran amphibian. 

 Amblyomua pomposum. Tick: Acarina (Ixodides), 217 

 Amblyopsis. American cave-fish: teleostean fish. 



Amblyrhynchus cristatus. Marine iguanid lizard of Galapagos Islands : Reptile. 

 Ambysioma tigrixum. N. American terrestrial salamander : vn-odelan amphibian, 346. 

 Ameiurus. Bullhead cat-fish: siluroid teleost, 307 

 Amia calva. Bowfin of N. America: holostean fish, 321 

 AMMOCCETES. Larva of lamprey : cyclostome, 92 

 Ammomaxes. Desert lark: passerine bird. 

 Ammophila. Digger wasp: insect (Hymenoptera). 

 Amceba PROTEUS. Protozoon (Rhizopod), 179 



Amphioxus (Bra.s-chiostoma). Lancelet: a protochordate (Cephalochordate), 229. 

 Amphiporus. Nemertine worm, 189 



Amphiss.e.va punctata. Legless blind subterranean lizard: Reptile. 

 Amphitretus. Pelagic octopus; oephalopod mollusc, 203 



Amphiuma. " Congo snake " or blind-eel, a salamander: urodelan amphibian, 349 



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