Excerpt from Exuviation, Autotomy and Regeneration in Ceratium, And, Notes on Some Obscure Species of Ceratium The term ecdysis or cytecdysis will be applied to the process of shedding the entire cell wall at one time and usually in a single piece, in two pieces or in a more or less intact condition. The removal of the wall, plate by plate or in groups of plates of small extent may, on the other hand, be designated as exuviation or cytexuviation. In the first case the cell contents withdraw bodily from the theca, while in the other the cell wall is cast ofi in parts and with the resulting temporary combination of new and old skeletal parts on one individual. 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.