chirodota

Updated: May 20, 2025

I mentioned just now Synapta; or, as Montagu called it, Chirodota: a much better name, and, I think, very uselessly changed; for Chirodota expresses the peculiarity of the beast, which consists in start not, reader twelve hands, like human hands, while Synapta expresses merely its power of clinging to the fingers, which it possesses in common with many other animals.

Charles Kingsley - Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore