ZOOLOGICAL GLOSSARY 775 



SiMEycHELYS PARASITICA. Snub-nosed eel: a deep-sea teleostean fish, some species of which 



burrow in the muscles of larger fish. 

 SiMocEPHALUS. A genus of water-flea: branchiopod crustacean (Cladocera). 

 SiPHOSOPs. An American csecilian amphibian. 



Sires. Mud-eel: a North American, mud-burrowing urodelan amphibian. 

 siRENiA. An order of aquatic mammals, comprising the sea-cows — manatee and dugong. 

 SoLEA. Dover sole: a teleostean flat-fish. 



SOLENOGASTRES. A class of molluscs comprising small worm-like animals with no shell, 196 

 SoLEyopsis. Robber-ant: a genus of hymenopterous insect (Formicidse). 

 SOLiruGvE. An order of arachnids comprising the pugnacious, nocturnal jerrymanders. 

 Spadella. An arrow-worm: chaetognath, 194 

 Spalax. Mole-rat: a bm-rowing myomorph rodent. 

 Sph.erodacttlus. a gecko: lacertilian reptile. 

 Sph.eroma lasceolata. a woodlouse: an isopod crustacean, 206 

 Spbemscus. Jackass penguin: an aquatic bird (Impennes). 

 SpHESoDoy pvycTATi'ff. The tuatara of New Zealand: the only extant rhynchocephalian 



reptile, 379 

 Sphtrxa tibcro. The bonnet shark: a selachian fish, 327 

 S. ztOjExa. The hammerhead shark, 327 



Spilotes variboatus. Diamond python of Australia: a boid snake, 384 

 Spinachia. Fifteen-spined stickleback: a marine teleostean fish. 

 Spirographis. a genus of marine tubicolous polychaete worm. 

 SposDrivs. A large, usually spinose, bivah^e mollusc, 201 

 SqUALVS ACASTHiAS. Spiny dogfish: a selachian fish, 97 

 SquATiNA. Angel-shark, monk-fish: a selachian fish, 288 



Steatorms. Oil bird, or guacharo of South America: a crepuscular bird (Coraciifornies). 

 Stexostoxum. a genus of tubellarian worm: Rhabdoccele. 

 Stentor. a trumpet -shaped ciliate protozoon: Ciliophora, 179 

 Stephanoa'etus. Crowned hawk eagle: a bird-of-prey (Falconiformes), 606 

 Sterna HiRuyoo. Common tern: a bird of the gull family, 419 

 Stizostedios. Pike-perch: a teleostean fish (Percidse). 

 STREPSiPTERA. An Order of insects comprising bee-parasites, such as Stijlops, the females of 



which are parasitic in bees, the males winged. 

 Streptopelia roseogrisea. The Barbary turtle dove: Columbidfe, 398 

 STRiGiD^. The owl family of birds. 

 SiRiyGops. Owl-parrot: Strigidse, 418 

 Strix aluco. The tawny owl: Strigidae. 

 S. FLAMMEA [Trio alba). The barn- or screech-owl. 

 STRoyorLocEyTRoTUs. A sea-urchin: echinoid echinoderm. 

 Struthio. The African ostrich: a flightless bird (Ratitae), 405 

 Sturnus vulgaris. The common Em-opean starling: a passerine bird (Sturnidse). 

 SrroicoLA. A Cuban cave-fish: a fresh-water teleostean fish. 

 Sttlaria lacustris. An aquatic oligochsete worm. 

 SmocHEiRoy mastigophorvm. An abyssal schizopod crustacean, 160 

 Sttlophorvs. a deep-sea teleostean fish, 322 



Sttlophthalmus paradoxus. The stalk-eyed larva oi Idiacaufhu-i, q.v. 

 Sttlops. a minute bee-parasite: an insect (Strepsiptera), 221 

 SUCTORIA. An order of Protozoa having cilia when young; the adults have long hollow 



" tentacles " through which they suck the protoplasm of their prey, 179 

 SUID,«. The pig family of Artiodactyla, comprising the pig, boar, wart-hog, etc. 

 Sula BASSAyA. The common North Atlantic gannet : an aquatic, fish-oating bird (Pele- 



caniformes), 407 

 SUOiDEA. A sub-order of Artiodactyla comprising the pig, peccary and hippopotanrus families. 

 SuRicATA. Suricate of South Africa: a burrowing, viverrine carnivore, allied to mongoose, 459 

 Sus, The typical genus of swine. 

 S. scROFA. Wild boar. 



Srcoy. A calcareous sponge: Porifera, ISl 

 SryAPTA. A sea-cucumber: a slender, transparent, burrowing holothurian (Echinoderm). 



