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
The remaining valves, when present, have been called _Latera_; there is
always one large upper one inserted between the lower halves of the
scuta and terga, and this I have named the Upper Latus or Latera; the
other latera in Pollicipes are numerous, and require no special names;
in Scalpellum, where there are at most only three pair beneath the Upper
Latera, it is convenient to speak of them (_vide_ Woodcut, I,) as the
_Carinal_, _Infra-median_, and _Rostral Latera_.
As each valve often requires (especially amongst the fossil species) a
distinct description, I have found it indispensable to give names to
each margin. These have mostly been taken from the name of the adjoining
valve, (see fig. I.) In Lepas, Pollicipes, &c., the margin of the scutum
adjoining the tergum and upper latus, is not divided (fig. II) into two
distinct lines, as it is in Scalpellum, and is therefore called the
Tergo-lateral margin. In Scalpellum (fig. I) these two margins are
separately named Tergal and Lateral. The angle formed by the meeting of
the basal and lateral or tergo-lateral margins, I call the Baso-lateral
angle; that formed by the basal and occludent margins, I call, from its
closeness to the Rostrum, the Rostral angle. In Pollicipes the carinal
margin of the tergum can be divided into an upper and lower carinal
margin; of this there is only a trace (fig. I) in Scalpellum.
That margin in the scuta and terga which opens and _shuts_ for the
exsertion and retraction of the cirri, I have called the Occludent
margin. In the terga of Lepas (fig. III) and some other genera, the
occludent margin is highly protuberant and arched, or even formed of two
distinct sides.
Occasionally, I have referred to what I have called the _primordial
valves_: these are not calcified; they are formed at the first
exuviation, when the larval integuments are shed: in mature Cirripedes
they are always seated, when not worn away, on the umbones of the
valves.
The membrane connecting the valves, and forming the peduncle, and
sometimes in a harder condition replacing the valves, I have often found
it convenient to designate by its proper chemical name of _Chitine_,
instead of by horny, or other such equivalents. When this membrane at
any articulation sends in rigid projections or crests, for the
attachment of muscles or any other purpose, I call them, after Audouin,
_apodemes_. For the underlying true skin, I use the term _corium_.
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