Forms of Animal Life; Being Outlines of Zoological Classification Based Upon Anatomical Investigation and Illustrated by Descriptions of Specimens and of Figures (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870. Excerpt: ... Tabular View of the System of Classification adopted in this work, shewing the various Sub-kingdoms in some of the relations of mutual affinity and of rank which they have been supposed to hold to each other. In the cases of several names an oblique position would have been truer to nature than the horizontal one which they occupy in the Table. The lines abut upon the names of the Classes or Orders by which the several Sub-kingdoms have been regarded as connected with each other. (Arrangement of Sub-kingdoms after Gegenbaur.) VEBTEBBATA (Pharyngobranchii) Tabular View of the System of Classification adopted in this work, giving the various Classes into which the seven Subkingdoms are divided. The relative positions of the names of the Classes indicate the relations of affinity and of rank which each Class has been supposed to hold to the other Classes in its own Sub-kingdom. Tabular View of the System of Classification adopted in this work, giving the pages at which the characteristics of the various Sub-kingdoms and of the Provinces and Classes subordinated to them; those at which the Descriptions of the Specimens; and those at which the Descriptions of the Figures in illustration, are to be found. I. SUB-KINGDOM. VERTEBBATA, pp. xxxi-lxxxv. Auallantoidea, p. xli-xlii Class 4. Amphibia pp. Ixi-lxviii. pp. 35-40 Pl. iii. pp. 181-185 Class 5. Pisces pp. Ixviii-lxxxv. pp. 40-46 II. SUB-KINGDOM. MOLLUSCA, pp. Ixxxv-oiii. Divisions Molluscs Proper, pp. Ixxxv-lxxxvii. Subdiritione- Odontophora p. lx ii. Anodontophora p. xcv. Molluscoidea, pp. Ixxxvii-lxxwiii, .. 'Class 1. Cephalopoda pp. Ixxxviii-xcii. Pl. xi. fig. I Class 2. Pteropoda pp. xciii-xcv. Class 3. Gasteropoda pp. xcii-xciii. pp. 47-54 Pl. iv. pp. 187-191 Class 4. Lamellibranchiata pp. xcv-xcviii. pp...