A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2): The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.Darwin, Charles
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A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2): The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.
Darwin, Charles
Balanidae; Cirripedia
I have scarcely anything to add to the statements in my former volume.
These organs consist of the true ovaria, or glandular bodies seated
on each side, not far from the basal edge of the labrum; of the main
or unbranched ovarian ducts; and of the (Pl. 25, fig. 1, _g_) ovarian
branching tubes and cæca. I traced distinctly in Balanus, Tetraclita,
and Coronula, the two main ovarian ducts, running from within the
prosoma to the layer of inosculating, branching, ovarian cæca[48] which
overlie the basis. In _Coronula diadema_ one of these main ducts was
1/100th of an inch in diameter. Though I traced these ducts near to the
grape-like, glandular masses,[49] which I cannot doubt are the true
ovaria, I did not succeed in tracing them into actual connection. As
in the Lepadidæ, these ovarian glands lie on the sides, near the basal
margin of the labrum, and almost under, but rather to the outside of
the antennular nerves. The branching and inosculating ovarian cæca
form a layer, which corresponds with the mass filling up the peduncle
in the Lepadidæ. In Tetraclita they do not cover the whole basis, but
are confined to the circumference; they, however, likewise extend
up between the two layers of corium round the walls of the shell,
and chiefly in the interspaces between the depressor muscles of the
opercular valves. In Chelonobia, they enter between the radiating septa
in the thickness of the walls: in _Coronula diadema_, they extend from
over the basal membrane into the six large square chambers (Pl. 16,
fig. 7, _v_) separating the radii and alæ: in Tubicinella they are
confined to the basis: in Xenobalanus, they form a layer over the basis
and likewise round the upper part of the peduncle-like body, which
answers to the shell of other sessile cirripedes.
[48] These are well described in Lepas, by R. Wagner, in 'Müller's
Archiv,' 1834, p. 467. Von Siebold, I observe, refers to Burmeister
as the first author who discovered the ovarian cæca within the
peduncle; I had thought that M. Martin St. Ange had a prior claim.
[49] These are obscurely figured by Karsten ('Nov. Act. Acad. Cæs.
Nat. Cur.,' 1845, Pl. 20, fig. 1_d_) as salivary glands; they were
so considered by Cuvier and M. Martin St. Ange: I may observe
that salivary glands have not been positively recognised in any
Crustacean.
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