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._--I can only say that they are spinose on their
summits.
_Affinities._--This species is allied to _P. eburnea_ in the rudimentary
condition of its terga; in the disc-shaped basal end of its carina; and
in the presence in some specimens, of a fissure-like line on the scuta
parallel to their occludent margins. Its affinity, however, is closer to
_P. fissa_, as is more especially shown by the remarkable arrangement of
the spines on the five posterior cirri.
4. PÆCILASMA FISSA. Pl. II, Fig. 4.
_P. valvis 7; scuto utroque è duobus juxtapositis segmentis formato;
segmento altero intus dentato: tergis brevibus, ter aut quater carinâ
latioribus: carinæ termino basali in discum parvum angustum infossum
producto._
Valves 7; each scutum being formed of two closely approximate segments;
of which one is internally toothed: terga short, three or four times as
wide as the carina: carina with the basal end produced into a small,
narrow, imbedded disc.
Spines on the segments of the posterior cirri arranged in single
transverse rows.
Philippine Archipelago; Island of Bohol; parasitic on a spinose
crab, found under a stone at low water; single specimen, in
Mus., Cuming.
_General Appearance._--Capitulum gibbous, broadly oval, nearly a quarter
of an inch long. Valves white, smooth, moderately thick, marked by the
lines of growth. The occludent segments of the scuta, and nearly the
whole of the terga, and the whole of the carina, enveloped in
lemon-yellow membrane, tinged with orange, but the specimen had long
been kept dry.
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