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
_Cirri_ long, little curved: the first pair (Pl. IV, fig. 8 _a´_) is
situated at an extraordinary distance from the second; hence its basal
articulation is on a level with the upper articulation of the pedicel of
the second cirrus. In the three posterior cirri, the segments are
laterally very flat, with their anterior surfaces not protuberant; each
supports three pairs of thin, non-serrated bristles, of which the second
pair is much shorter than the upper, and the lowest pair minute; between
each pair there is a minute, rectangulary projecting bristle; dorsal
tufts consist of two or three spines, of which one is longer than the
others. The two bristles forming each pair, are not of equal length; for
in the rami of each cirrus, the inner row of bristles is much shorter
than the outer; and this seems to be connected with the flatness of the
whole animal, and the consequent little power of divergence in the rami
of the cirri. The first cirrus is rather short, with the rami unequal in
length by about two segments: the anterior ramus is shorter and thicker
than the other: segments numerous, each clothed with several rows of
bristles. The second cirrus has the anterior ramus thicker and more
thickly clothed with spines than the posterior ramus; this latter is
rather more thickly clothed with spines than are the three posterior
cirri; the third cirrus is in all these respects characterised like the
second cirrus, but in a lesser degree. The pedicels of the second and
third cirri are thickly and irregularly clothed with spines; in the
three posterior pairs, the spines are placed in two regular rows, with
some minute intermediate spines.
_Caudal Appendages_ (Pl. IV, fig. 8 _a´_, _f_), multiarticulate, thin,
tapering, in one specimen equalling, in another just exceeding, in
length the pedicels of the sixth cirrus. In the latter specimen there
were thirteen segments, of which the basal segments were broader and
shorter than the upper; these latter are slightly constricted round the
middle, so that they resemble, in a small degree, an hour-glass. Their
upper margins are surrounded by rings of bristles; the terminal segment
being surmounted by one or two very fine bristles much longer than the
others. The two appendages are closely approximate; each arises from a
narrow elongated slip, attached to the side of the pedicel of the sixth
cirrus.
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