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
_Filamentary Appendages._--These, in a medium-sized specimen, are
arranged on the prosoma in four longitudinal approximate rows, there
being twelve in each row; those in the two outer rows are only half the
length of those in the two inner rows; those nearest the thorax are the
longest; there are some papillæ outside the outer rows. In a very large
specimen with its capitulum 1.3 in length, these filaments were very
much more numerous, and some were placed on the first segment of the
thorax, and at the bases of several of the posterior cirri. Some of the
filaments are bifid, trifid, and even branched. In all the specimens, at
the bases of the first pair of cirri, there are, on each side, a pair of
filaments, (one below the other,) pointing upwards, less than half as
long as those on the prosoma: also on each side of the mouth, there is a
longer and thicker filament, pointing upwards, with a few very minute
scattered spines on it; the apices of these three pair of filaments, as
well as of some of the others, are roughened with very minute pectinated
scales. All these filaments were gorged with the branching testes.
_Mouth._--The parts are closely similar to those in _P. cornucopia_; in
the mandibles, the interspace between the third tooth and the inferior
angle, is slightly pectinated: in the maxillæ, there are six or eight
pairs of spines between the two upper tufts of fine spines.
_Cirri._--These are in most respects similar, to those of _P.
cornucopia_. In a specimen in which the sixth cirrus had eighteen
segments, the shorter ramus of the first pair had ten segments, of which
the five lower segments were thick and clothed with doubly serrated
spines. In the second cirrus the anterior ramus had fifteen segments, of
which the four basal ones were highly protuberant, and thickly clothed
with spines. These spines, and some on the third cirrus, and a few on
the first cirrus, have peculiar bent teeth, presently to be described
under _P. polymerus_. These singularly toothed spines are absent in _P.
cornucopia_. From the above numbers, we see that the first and second
pairs of cirri have more segments in proportion to the sixth pair, than
in _P. cornucopia_; and in the second pair, a fewer proportional number
of the basal segments are protuberant and thickly clothed with spines.
_Caudal Appendages_, shorter than the lower segments of the pedicels of
the sixth cirrus, with only four articulations; rather constricted near
the base.
The _Ovigerous Fræna_ consist of very long and prominent folds, thinning
out to nothing towards the bases of the scuta, but not furnished, as far
as I could see, with glands, and therefore not normally functional.
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