Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Glasgow Naturalist, 1915, Vol. 7: The Journal of the Natural History Society of Glasgow (Including the Transactions and Proceedings of the Society, Third Series)
The hydroid in question was discovered, and described (trans. Linn. Soc., 1857, Vol. 22, pp. 113 as a, new genus and species, by Gosse who found a vigorous colony growing round the mouth of a Sabella tube in one of his aquaria. He gave a very lively account of the quaint mannikin-like individuals, and of their grotesque bending and swaying antics round the mouth of the tube, and he not inappropriately named his new genus Lam, or domestic god of the Sabelh'ds. The most striking feature of the genus is the possession of only two tentacles springing from one side of the base of a highly movable bilabiate proboscis, which is separated by a slight constriction from the rest of the body.
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