688 



INDEX 



contractile responses, sponges, 376 



contractile vacuole, 39 



contractile vessels, 99 



contraction, of muscle, 381 



Convoluta, 613, 616 



C. convoluta, 613, 614. 618, 619 



C. roscoffensis, 347, 452, 613, 614, 615, 



617, 618, 619 

 co-ordination of cilia, 367 

 copepods, 202 



commensalism, 590 



feeding, 225, 248 



filtering rates, 229 



parasitism, 248, 605 

 copper — 



in blood, 174, 180 



in sea water, 1 1 

 coproporphyrin, 288 

 coral, 16, 636 



feeding, 237 



skeleton, 637 



symbiosis. 166, 617 

 Corallium, 637 

 C. rubrum, 632 

 coral-reef dwellers, 662 

 Corculum, 616 

 C. cardissa, 615 

 cormorants, feeding, 244, 245. 246 



See also Phalacrocorax 

 Corophium, 233 

 Corvina nigra, 343 

 Corycaeus, 542 

 Corymorpha, 237 

 Corynactis, 373 



Corynocephalus albomacu ants, 596 

 Cory st es cassivelaunus, 146 

 Cothurnia curvula, 39, 40 

 countershading, 496 

 crabs — 



blanching, 5 



commensalism, 585 



shelters, 663 

 Crangon, 328, 352, 405, 514, 517, 518, 638, 



645 

 C. dalii, 633 

 C. vulgaris, 124, 516 

 Crania, 210, 212, 651 

 C. anomala, 633 

 Crassostrea angulata, 16, 285 

 Crassostrea (= Ostrea) virginica, 30, 110, 

 124, 148, 152, 165, 169, 229, 646, 

 678 

 creatine, 283 

 creatine phosphate, 394 

 creatinine, 283 

 Crenilabrus, 461, 480, 507 

 C. pavo, 524 

 C. roissali, 522 

 Crepidula, 260 

 C.fornicata, 211, 214 

 Creusia, 663 



Cribrina xanthogrammica, 473 

 crinoids, skeleton, 631, 634 



croaker, 406 



See Haemulon, Micropogon 

 crop, 256 

 Crustacea — 



borers, 661 



carotenoids, 474 



chemical sensitivity, 352 



chromatophores, 506, 511, 513 



circulation, 104 



colour responses, 513 



colour vision, 328 



commensalism, 585, 587, 589, 590, 662 



digestion, 256, 257, 273, 274 



electrical activity of ganglia, 455 



excretion, 288, 292, 298 



excretory organs, 296 



eyes, 309, 314 



eyestalks, 315, 515, 644 



feeding, 225, 233, 235, 239, 247 



giant axons, 435, 450 



gravity sense, 347 



haemocyanin, 187 



haemoglobin, 185 



hearing, 341 



heart, 113, 121 



hormones, 515, 644 



learning, 459 



luminescence, 541, 549 



moulting, 638, 641 



muscles, 387 



nervous system, 432, 435, 441, 443 



neurosecretion, 445 



osmotic regulation, 45 



parasitism, 247, 598 



proprioceptors, 337 



respiration, 141, 165 



retinal pigments, 330 



sensory hairs, 335 



sinus gland, 516 



skeleton, 637, 639 



sound-production, 405 



urine-formation, 298 



ventilation, 166 

 cryptic coloration, 494 

 Cryptochirus, 228 

 Cryptochiton, 101 

 C. stelleri, 285 

 Cryptocotyle lingua, 608 

 cryptoniscid parasites, 599 

 cryptoniscus, 599 

 Cryptosparas, 564 

 crystalline style, 258, 260, 273 

 Ctenolabrus, 462, 507 

 ctenophores — 



cilia, 369 



colloblasts, 375 



feeding, 238 



luminescence, 548, 570 



parasitism, 592 



symbiosis, 620 

 cuchia. See Amphipnous 

 Cucumaria, 153, 224, 393, 430 

 C. elongata, 185 



