pontonia

Updated: May 27, 2025

Prawns and shrimps furnish delicacies for the breakfast table; and the delicate little pea crab, Pontonia inflata , recalls its Mediterranean congener , which attracted the attention of Aristotle, from taking up its habitation in the shell of the living pinna. Nat.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon