A less complete case of serial homology is presented by Crustacea (animals of the crab class), notably by the squilla and by the common lobster. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
The crawfish has a tail, and five fins on it; and the round-backed carid has a tail and four fins; the squilla also has fins at the tail on either side. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
In the case of both the hump-backed carid and the squilla the middle art of the tail is spinous: only that in the squilla the part is flattened and in the carid it is sharp-pointed. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
It is very different with the crangon, or squilla; it has four front legs on either side, then three thin ones close behind on either side, and the rest of the body is for the most part devoid of feet. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
It is therefore very interesting to find that in the other crustacean before mentioned, the squilla, the segmentation of the body is more completely preserved, and even the first three segments, which go to compose the head, remain permanently distinct. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
What would you have thought of the poor little squilla, so prettily baptised by the fishermen, if. From Wordnik.com. [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference
There are other crustaceans, next-door neighbors of the squilla, whose gills are still more simplified. From Wordnik.com. [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference
Olimar's Notes: Looking at the eyes and sickle-shaped legs characteristic of squillas, one would think this is a squilla relative. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
Among these were some individuals of the squilla tribe, which, though one of the tenderest of the crustaceous family, had not suffered the least injury from pressure or friction. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
Punge, se ode squilla di lontano. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
"Piange la squilla 'l giorno, che si muore.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851] Reference
"Segna la squilla il dì che già vien manco.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849] Reference
A child's cry, from Gothic 'Squæla' and Icelandic 'squilla,' would scarcely have been made an adjective by Gerarde), -- "and will not yield to any culturing or transplanting: it groweth especially in a field called Cragge. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
"si ode squilla di lontano. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851] Reference
squilla di lontano. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy] Reference
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