Class VI. ECHINORINCHUS. 57. 



GENUS V. ECHINORINCHUS. 



Body long, cylindrical. 



Mouth with a cylindrical retractile proboscis, 

 crowned with hooked prickles. 



TurtonBr. Faun. 126. Mull. Zoo!. Dan. i. iSQ. f. I.Candidus. 



37./. 7. 10. 



[EcH. body about three inches long, pale opake, 

 varying in color, slightly wrinkled. Ed.* 



• Animals of this genus are found in the intestines of quadru- 

 peds, birds, and fishes, but never in those of men. Forty-eight 

 species are enumerated by Midler and some northern naturalists. 

 Ed. 



