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THE OCEAN WORLD. 



The observations of Milne-Edwards, Audouin, and Professor 

 Edward Forbes, have led to the division of the sea into four zones : — 

 The deep sea Coral zone, from fifty to loo fathoms; the Coralline 

 zone from fifteen to fifty fathoms ; the I^aminarian zone, which 

 stretches from fifteen fathoms to low water ; and the Littoral zone, 

 between high and low water marks. 



The great stronghold of Crania, Thetis, Nesera, Yoldia, Dentalium, 

 and Scissurella, is in the deep sea Coral zone ; while Buccinum, Fusus, 

 Pleurotoma, Natica, Aporrhais, Philine, and Velutina, which are 

 among the most ravenous and predatory of molluscs, are found in 

 the Coralline zone. They attack the bivalves, whose shells among 

 the relics of former seas, as in those of the present, show evidence 

 of assaults and murder. 



The principal genera of the Laminarian zone are the different 

 genera of the Nudibranchiata, and such genera as Aplysia, Trochus, 

 Navicella, Rissoa, and Lacuna, which feed so much on the seaweed 

 of this region. 



The Littoral zone, which, being accessible as the tide recedes, is 

 best known, affords Cardiuni, Mytilus, Tellina, Solen, Trochus, 

 Patella, Littorina, and Purpura ; or in plain English, cockles, mussels, 

 razor-fish, limpets, periwinkles, and tingles — species which are the 

 first to attract our attention, and which are so much used for food. 



Nothing was known at the time of the translation of this work of 

 the discoveries since made by Sars, Wyville Thomson, Pourtales, 

 and others, as to what may now be well called the Deep Sea fauna 

 which live in depths of from loo to 1,500 fathoms. 



