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
[64] In a sketch, sent me by Mr. Dana, of this organ in the pupa
of a Lepas from the Antarctic Ocean, I observe that he divides my
ultimate segment into two segments.
In the Southern Atlantic I took some specimens of the pupa of
_Lepas australis_, not yet attached, and therefore with the muscles
of the antennæ, not having suffered any of that absorption, which
they undergo, as soon as the pupa is permanently cemented to some
floating object. In my former volume I noticed a pair of strong
muscles, attached to the tips of the middle forks (Pl. 30, fig. 7)
of the apodemes, and I now find two pairs attached to the bases of
the two outer forks, and directed dorso-anteriorly; and two other
pairs, also attached to their bases, but directed dorso-posteriorly,
so that altogether there are five pairs of muscles attached to the
apodemes; their chief function, I should think, was to draw the antennæ
posteriorly and upwards within the carapace; but as the apodemes cannot
be moved without the great compound eyes being likewise moved, the
muscles probably serve a double purpose. When the pupæ were alive, I
noticed that their eyes were constantly kept in a state of vibratory
movement. Flexor and extensor muscles are attached at one end to the
posterior margin of the basal segment, and at the other end to the
second or main segment; other powerful muscles attached to this latter
segment, are prolonged by ligaments into the disc. In Cryptophialus I
observed that the disc-segment had a movement almost like that of the
wrist. Whether any muscles enter the small terminal segment, I know not.
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