758 ZOOLOGICAL GLOSSARY 



AsTERiAS. Starfish: an echinoderm (Asteroidea), 185 



ASTEBOIDEA. Class of Echiiiodermata, comprising starfishes. 



AsTROScoPUS. Stargazer: teleostean fish, 751 



AsTUR PALUMBARius. Goshawk: bird-of-prey (Falconiformes), 403 



Ateles. Spider monkey of S. America: Primate (Cebidse), 689 



ATHERiyA. Silverside: teleostean fish, 617 



AuRELiA. Common jellyfish: a coelenterate (Scyphozoa), 183 



AvsTROLETBOPs. Goby fish : teleostean fish. 



AvicuLA. Pearl oyster: bivalve mollusc, 200 



Balms A. Right-whale: a cetacean. 



Bal.esoptera. Blue whale: the largest cetacean, 444. 



Balasoglossvs. Acorn worm : a protochordate (Hemichordate), 227 



Balasvs. Acorn-shell: a crustacean (Cirripede), 209 



Balistes. File-fish (trigger-fish): a teleostean fish. 



Baratbronvs. a deep-sea teleostean fish. 



Barbatula. a fresh-water teleostean fish. 



Bathothauma. Deep-sea squid: a cephalopod mollusc, 203 



Bathygobius. Goby fish: a teleostean fish. 



Bathtlaqvs ben edict I. Deep-sea salmonid: a teleostean fish, 310 



Bathypterois. Feeler-fish: a deep-sea teleostean fish. 



Bathytevthis. Deep-sea octopod: a cephalopod mollusc. 



Bathytroctes. a deep-sea teleostean fish. 



BATOiDEi. Sub-order of flat selachians (skate, ray). 



Bdellostoma. Slime hag: a cyclostome. 



Belidevs scivreus. a squirrel-like phalanger: marsupial (Phalangeridte). 



Belose. Needle-fish (garfish): a teleostean fish. 



Besoalichthys. Deep-sea ray: a bat oid selachian fi.sh. 



Be.xthobatis. Deep-sea ray: a batoid selachian fish. 



Beryx. a deep-sea teleostean fish, 303 



Betta pvaxAX or spies dexs. Siamese fighting fish: a fre.sh-water teleostean fish, 84 



BiBio MARci. April fly: a dipterous insect. 



BiTis ARiETASft. African puff adder : a snake of the viper family, 392 



BIVALVES (Lamellibranchs). Class of molluscs, comprising the shell-fish (clam, cockle, mussel). 



Blattella oermamca. German cockroach: insect (Orthoptera). 



Blatta oriestalis. Common cockroach, black beetle: insect (Orthoptera), 34 



BiEsyivs. Blenny: a teleostean fish, 310 



BOID^.. Family of snakes, comprising boas, pythons, etc. 



Bold A DEyDROPjjiLA. Black-and-gold tree-snake (Mangrove snake) : Opisthoglyph. 



BoLiTOTHEBVs coRxuTus. A spccics of beetle: insect (Coleoptera). 



BoMBixATOR {Bombixa) loyEi's. Fire-bcllied toad: an anuran, 339 



BoMBTs. Bumble-bee: a hymenopterous insect, 219 



BoMBYLirs. Bee-fly: a dipterous insect, 219 



BoMBYx. Silk-moth: a lepidopterous insect. 



BoRODisuLA iXFAys. Snipc-eel: a deep-sea teleostean fish, 679 



Bos TAURUS. European domestic cattle (ox, cow): Ruminants (Bovidse). 



BoTAURUs. Bittern: a bird of the heron family, 685 



BorroAixriLLBA. Hydroid colony: a coelenterate (Hydrozoa). 



BOViD^. Family of imgulates, comprising ox, sheep, goat, etc. 



Box. Sea-bream: a teleostean fish. 



BRACHIOPODA. Lamp-shells : a phylum of Invertebrata. 



Bradypus tridactylus. Three-toed sloth: Xenarthra (Bradypodidse). 



Braschelliox. Leech: an annelid (Hirudinea), 193 



Braxchiomma tesiculosum. A marine tubicolous polychaete worm, 192 



Braxchioxus. a genus of rotifer. 



BBANCHIOPODA. An Order of crustaceans, comprising Phyllopoda and Cladocera. 



Bubo. Eagle-owl: Strigida?, 422, 606 



B. ASCALAPHUS. Savigny's eagle owl. 



