Class VI. ECHINORINCHUS. 



GENUS V. ECHINORINCHUS. 



Body long, cylindrical. 



Mouth with a cylindrical retractile proboscis, 

 crowned with hooked prickles. 



Turton Br. Faun. 126. Mull. Zool. Dan. i. 13g. t. I.Canbidus. 



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 Muller and some northern naturalists. 

 Ed. 



