A Popular History of British Crustacea: Comprising a Familiar Account of Their Classification and Habits (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Some of us have witnessed the moulting of a Crab, and mysterious does it seem to the novice in Natural History when he finds that a hard Lobster or Crab, with a coat of stony hardness, and which requires great strength Of arm and knife, and even of hammer, sometimes, to open and cut or break it, casts Off its Old covering entire - the joint Of every part of its thousand-jointed body, antennae,'foot-jaws, claws, and tail. And not only does it cast Off these hard external parts, but the very linings of its gills, of its stomach, Of its eyes and of other parts are thrown Off, and thus, when the creature has escaped, the shell seems as perfect nearly as the animal itself. We Often see cases from the Brazils of a gaudy Grapsus, more delicate even than the new-coated animal seeing the parts are translucent and the cases are only the cast-off skins, rejected by what naturalists call ecdysis, but our Saxon forefathers would have termed moulting.

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