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_, short and rather thick; the first pair is not far removed from
the second. The segments of the three posterior pair are somewhat
protuberant, bearing six pair of short, strong spines, graduated in
length, between which there is a very thick, longitudinal brush of
short, fine, straight bristles, of which the lower ones are the longest;
some thick, minute spines arise from the upper lateral edges of the
segments. The spines in the dorsal tufts are short, much crowded, and of
nearly equal length; see figure, 27, Pl. X, in the allied _P.
polymerus_. In a specimen in which the sixth cirrus had seventeen
segments, the first cirrus had, in the shorter ramus, eight segments, of
which the lower four were thick and protuberant, with the spines doubly
serrated. In this same specimen, the anterior ramus of the second cirrus
had twelve segments, of which the five basal ones were highly
protuberant, and thickly clothed with non-serrated spines. In the third
cirrus the basal segments of the anterior ramus are highly protuberant.
The basal segments in the posterior rami of both these cirri, are
slightly protuberant, but otherwise resemble the segments in the three
posterior pair.
The _Caudal Appendages_ (Pl. X, fig. 22), in full-grown specimens, just
exceed in length the lower segments of the pedicels of the sixth cirrus;
they are nearly cylindrical, bluntly pointed, with five oblique
imperfect articulations; the lower or basal articulations cannot be
traced all round, being distinct only on the ventral surface. There is a
row of short spines round the upper edge of each segment, with a little,
short tuft on the point of the terminal segment. In a rather young
specimen, however, with its capitulum one fifth of an inch long, each
appendage certainly consisted of a single segment, with spines only on
the summit.
_Penis_ purple, with excessively short and fine spines in tufts, chiefly
near the extremity. In a specimen with a capitulum only one fifth of an
inch long, the penis consisted of a mere pointed papilla, not so long as
the caudal appendage, and therefore equalling in length only the lower
segment of the pedicel of the sixth cirrus.
_Ovigerous fræna._--I could see none, though there were two large
lamellæ in the sack. The ova were flesh-coloured, but they had been
dried and then placed in spirits. The ova were wonderfully numerous,
oval, much elongated, and 1/100th of an inch in length.
2. POLLICIPES ELEGANS.
POLLICIPES ELEGANS. _Lesson._ Voyage de la Coquille, tom. ii, p.
441, 1830, et Illust. Zool., Pl. xxxix, 1831.
---- RUBER. _G. B. Sowerby._ Zoolog. Proc., 1833, p. 74.
_P. capitulo, valvarum duobus aut pluribus sub-rostro verticillis
instructo: valvis et pedunculi squamis rufo-aurantiacis: squamarum
verticillis densis symmetricè dispositis._
Capitulum with two or more whorls of valves under the rostrum: valves
and scales of peduncle reddish-orange; the latter symmetrically arranged
in close whorls.
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