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is pyriform and short, and at its lower extremity we see 
two minute eminences. The ovarian tubes are of con- 
siderable thickness, cylindrical, and about the same length 
as the whole animal. 
The colour of the animal is white. Length, about 
half an inch. 
^^<5. — -Gills of the salmon, London market, W. B. 
Family 2-ANCHORELLAD M. 
Lerneopodiens (pars), M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii. 
Character . — Arm-shaped appendages very short, and 
united to each other from the base, so as to resemble a 
single organ. 
Genus Anchorella. 
Lernasa, Strom , Sondmoer ; Lamarck, Muller, Johnston. 
Anchorella, Cuvier, Regne An., 1817 ; Nordmann, Burmeister , Kroyer, 
M. Edwards. 
Clavella (pars), Oken, Lehrbuch, 1815 (not Cuvier, R egne An., nor Kroyer ) . 
Lerneomyzon, Blainville , Desmarest. 
Character . — 'Female. Body in general short, and 
somewhat swollen. Head small, and situated at the ex- 
tremity of a long neck, which is generally curved back- 
wards. Two pairs of foot-jaws well developed, and a 
third rudimentary. Antennae rudimentary. Ovarian 
tubes of moderate length, and cylindrical. 
The male differs in appearance very much from the 
female, and is very small. 
The genus Anchorella, as established by Cuvier in 1817, 
embraces the Lerneadae of this division, in which the 
arms are short, and united to each other from the base. 
A species is figured by Strom, in the ‘Physiske og 
Oeconomisk/ &c., which appears to be the first described, 
