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
After the exuviation of the outer membranes of the pupa, certain
pre-existing coloured marks in the corium, such as those round the eyes
and round the acoustic orifices, along the ridge of the back and on the
borders of the orifice, &c., are still retained by the young Cirripede,
either temporarily or permanently; so that the correspondence of part
with part of the external surface admits of no doubt. Moreover, the
three terminal segments of the antennæ are invariably retained by
the young Cirripede, though in a functionless condition, and into
them the outer membrane of the body, and an important organ, viz.,
the cement-ducts are still prolonged; hence these prolongations must
be considered as aborted antennæ. Again, we have seen that the mouth
of the young Cirripede is formed under the rudimentary mouth of the
pupa, with the new œsophagus, round the old œsophagus, leading into
the same alimentary canal. The twenty-four extreme tips, likewise,
of the six pairs of biramous cirri of the Cirripede are formed
within the twenty-four extremities of the six pairs of biramous,
natatory legs of the pupa. Consequently, in the Cirripede and pupa,
thus far, part corresponds with part, notwithstanding that new eyes
are formed posteriorly to the old eyes, and new acoustic organs in a
quite different position from the old ones; but now we come to a most
important diversity in the metamorphosis, or rather to follow Professor
Owen,[66] in the metagenesis, of the young Cirripede. Although, as
just stated, the extremities of the cirri are formed within the legs
of the pupa, yet, from the great length of the cirri, they occupy more
than the whole of the thorax of the pupa; so that the thorax of the
young Cirripede is not formed within the pre-existing thorax of the
pupa, but within that part of the pupa, (homologically a portion of the
first three cephalic segments), which lies anteriorly to the thorax.
As a consequence of this, the pedicels and lower portions of the
cirri, the segments of the thorax and its dorsal surface, all come to
occupy a position at nearly right angles to that of the corresponding
parts in the pupa: this is shown in Pl. 30, fig. 2. And as a further
consequence, (and this is the more important point), the sack, which
both in the young Cirripede and pupa is formed by the overhanging and
produced portion of the carapace, and which is _internally lined by a
reduplication of the membrane of the thorax_, is necessarily, owing to
the changed position of the thorax, altered in extent and carried much
further; namely, from extending merely parallel to the longitudinal
axis of the pupa (from _b_ to _b′_), it is now in the young Cirripede,
in addition, carried (to _s′_) almost quite across the inside of the
animal. Hence it comes that the young Cirripede is, as I have said in
my former volume, internally almost intersected; and its body remains
attached only by a small space, (see the broken line, round _a_ and _b_
in Pl. 25, fig.
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