INDEX 



685 



Balaena mvsticetus, 170, 287 

 B. sieboldfi, 170 

 Balaenoptera, 186, 231 

 B. musculus, 170 

 B.phy salus, 170, 179 

 balanoglossids, digestion, 265 



feeding, 220 



giant axons, 437 



nervous system, 426 

 Balanoglossus, 220, 394, 427, 444 

 B. minutus, 546 

 Balanus, 487, 602, 638 

 B. balanoides, 38 

 B. hameri, 633 

 B. improvisus, 38 

 B. tintinnabulum, 38 

 baleen, 231 

 Balistes, 406 

 Balticina, 637 

 Bankia, 261, 267, 661 

 5. £owW/, 261 

 barnacles. See Cirripedes 

 barosensitivity, 348 

 barracuda. See Sphyraena 

 basking shark. See Cetorhinus 

 bats, feeding, 247 

 beach flea. See Talorchestia 

 behaviour, 447 

 Belone belone, 88, 179, 480 

 Benthobatis, 313 

 B. moresbyi, 577 

 benthos, 2 



Beroe, 379, 566, 610, 634 

 B. cucumis, 15 

 B. ovata, 152, 566, 567 

 Beryx dedactylus, 475 

 bile pigments, 275, 283, 478 

 bile salts, 266 

 biliverdin, 478, 479, 486 

 biochemistry of luminescence, 559 

 bipinnaria, 223 

 birds — 



excretion, 288 



feeding, 230, 244 



haemoglobin, 186 



respiration, 170 

 Birgus, 149, 663 

 B. latro, 49 

 Bispira, 137 

 B. volutacornis, 144 

 bivalves. See lamellibranchs 

 bladder-nose seal. See Cystophora 

 blennies, 328 



See also Blennius 

 Blemrius, 353 

 B. pholis, 328 

 blood — 



alkali reserve, 190 



buffering, 190 



cells, 122, 173 



coagulation, 123 



copper, 174, 180 



erythrocytes, 173, 179 



blood (contd.) — 



haemocyanin, 174, 180 



haemoglobin, 173, 179 



oxygen capacity, 175 



pigments, 172 



pressure, 90 



transport of CO a , 190 

 of O a , 172 



vessels, 89 



volume, 85, 86, 87 

 blue coral. See Heliopora 

 blue whale. See Balaenoptera 

 body fluids, 84 



composition, 58, 59, 284 

 Bohr effect, 181, 183 

 Bolina, 566 

 Bol tenia, 264 

 bone, 634 



Bonellia viridis, 152, 476 

 bonellin, 476 

 bopyrid parasites, 599 

 Bopvrina virbii, 601 

 Bopyms, 599, 601, 608 

 B. fongeronxi, 599 

 Boreogadns saida, 161, 162 

 borers, 233, 658, 662 

 Bothns podas, 521 

 Botryllns, 470, 493 

 boitie-nosed whale. See Hyperoodon 



ro stratus 

 Boveria teredinidi, 416 

 Box, 462 

 brachiopods — 



circulation, 100 



digestion, 260 



feeding, 210 



haemerythrin, 187 



skeleton, 651 

 Branchellion, 596 

 branchial hearts, 106 

 Branchiomma, 147, 341 , 385, 443, 444, 450, 



656, 657 

 B. vesienlosum, 347, 589 

 Brevoortia, 635 

 B. tyrannus, 142 

 Bryozoa. See Polyzoa 

 buccal glands, 255 

 Buccinnm, 235, 293, 443, 457 

 Bngula, 652 

 Bulla, 239 

 Bullen, F. T., 540 

 burrowing animals, 95, 98, 99, 450 

 buffering, blood, 190 

 Busy con, 113, 173, 174, 235 

 B. canaliculatum, 180, 187, 189 

 B. carica, 180 

 byssus, 648, 656 



byssus retractor muscle, 389, 392 

 by-the-wind-sailor. See Velella 



Cabirops, 601 



cachalot. See sperm whale, Physeter 



Calanus, 263, 275, 599 



