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Introduction to Animal Morphology. 



the remains of the ancestral dorsal spine of the Zoea*\ These 

 transformations take place in the q^%, and the young has 

 assumed its aiult form on its emergence. 



Fig. 42. 



Niphargus Kochianus ; Niphargus fontanus. 



The families are : — i. Gammaridae — head small ; antennae 

 many-jointed ; maxillae 4-5 jointed ; some (Ceraphis) build 

 nests of seaweed, &c., like Caddis cases, and most swim on 

 their sides. Orchestia and Talitrus, Sandhoppers, have short 

 antennules, and the third thoracic limbs chelate. Gammarus, 



* The Ancestral Zoea was of the type of the Archizoea, whose descend- 

 ant is the pupa'; stage of the Cirripede rather than the speciahzed Zoea, 

 of the crab. The preceding Nauplius resemble that of the Copepod (the 

 Archinauplius). 



