Synapta

The companionship between the slow and feeble Synapta, one of the most primitive of sea things, and the brilliant, agile fish may be another instance of commensalism.

Tropic Days 2003

In a few seconds the Synapta began to extrude its feathery gills, which had been partly retracted on disturbance.

Tropic Days 2003

Playing about it were three or four little fish which immediately took advantage of the only remaining cover, the body of the Synapta, snoodling beside it so artfully that they were quite concealed.

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The Synapta, when in want of food, will amputate its own body to procure the necessary supply; and it has been observed to repeat the operation, until it 'had by degrees eaten away the whole of its body to keep life in the head.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

One genus or class of them is known as the Synapta.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The companionship between the slow and feeble Synapta, one of the most primitive of sea things, and the brilliant, agile fish may be another instance of commensalism.

Tropic Days 1887

In a few seconds the Synapta began to extrude its feathery gills, which had been partly retracted on disturbance.

Tropic Days 1887

Synapta, snoodling beside it so artfully that they were quite concealed.

Tropic Days 1887

Synapta burrows in the sand; it first pushes in the thin anterior end, and thickens this again, thus enlarging the hole, then the anterior tentacles displace more sand, the body is worked in a little farther, and the process begins anew.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

And as these last could not have been produced directly by the beating of the heavy raindrops upon them, so the calcareous anchors of Synapta cannot have been produced directly by the friction of the sand and mud at the bottom of the sea, and, since they are parts whose function is _passive_ the Lamarckian factor of use and disuse does not come into question.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880