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Excerpt from Reports Of The Results Of Dredging, Vol. 48: Under The Supervision Of Alexander Agassiz, In The Gulf Of Mexico, (1877-78), In The Caribbean Sea (1878-79), And Along The Atlantic Coast Of The United States (1880); Les Macroures Marcheurs
La c�cit� ne se produit jamais chez les Palinures cuirass�s mais ces animaux fr�quentent exclusivement les z�nes littorales et sublittorales; le Palinurus truncatus, qui fut pris sous 163 brasses, par le blake, � des yeux plus d�velopp�s que la plupart des autres Langoustes, et, �. Ce point de vue, se rapproche quelque peu des Nephrops; le Scyllarus jaxom', qui se tient sur les m�mes fonds, ne pr� sente pas de dilatation corn�enne bien notable. Quant aux Eryonides, ils sont tous aveugles, avec des p�doncules oculaires anormaux et plus ou mois ankylos�s; dans l'�tat actuel de nos connaissance, on ne saurait dire quel a �t� chez eux le processus �volutif qui les a conduits � la c�cit�. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.