A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2): The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated CirripedesDarwin, Charles
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A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2): The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes
Darwin, Charles
Cirripedia; Lepadidae
_Caudal Appendages_, narrow, thin, slightly curved, about half as long
as the pedicels of the sixth cirrus; in young specimens, the appendage
bore seven or eight pair of long bristles rectangularly projecting; in
some older specimens, there was a tuft of bristles on the summit, and
two other tufts on the sides.
I at first thought that the Borneo specimen was a distinct species, but
after careful comparison of the external and internal parts, the only
difference which I can detect is, that the terga are slightly larger,
and that the carina, to a more evident degree, is wider, more especially
in the middle and lower portions.
2. DICHELASPIS GRAYII. Pl. II, fig. 9.
_D. scutorum segmento basali angustiore quam segmentum occludens;
longitudine pæne dimidiâ: tergis bipenniformibus, margine crenato, spinâ
posticâ, manubrio angustiore quam occludens scutorum segmentum._
Scuta, with the basal segment narrower than the occludent segment, and
about half as long as it. Terga like a battle-axe, with the edge
crenated and a spike behind; the handle narrower than the occludent
segment of the scuta.
Mandibles with three teeth; cirri unknown.
Attached to the skin of a sea-snake, believed to have been the
_Hydeus_ or _Pelamis bicolor_, and therefore from the Tropical,
Indian or Pacific Oceans; associated with the _Conchoderma
Hunteri_; single specimen, in a very bad condition, in the Royal
College of Surgeons.
_General Appearance._--Capitulum much compressed, elongated, formed of
very thin membrane, with the valves forming round it a mere border.
Valves thin, imperfectly calcified, covered with membrane.
_Scuta_ formed of two narrow plates at very nearly right-angles to each
other, one extending along the occludent, and the other along the basal
margin; both become very narrow at the point of junction, and are there
not calcified, but are evidently continuous and form part of the same
valve; the basal segment is about half as long and narrower than the
occludent segment, flat and bluntly pointed at the end; occludent
segment slightly curled, and therefore the whole does not lie quite in
the same plane; narrow close to the umbo, with a very minute tooth on
the under side; apex rounded. In the upper part, the occludent segments
leave the membranous margin of the orifice, and run in near to the
terga, bending towards them at an angle of 45° with their lower part. I
was unable to distinguish the primordial valves.
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