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
_Var._ (3) validus (Pl. 1, figs. _c_, _f infra_): _globulo-convex;
coarsely ribbed, ribs flexuous; either smooth or rugged; pale
chocolate purple or pink; shell extremely strong; orifice almost
circular_.
_Var._ (4) zebra (Pl. 1, fig. _g_): _conical; rich chocolate purple
with broad snow-white ribs; sheath bright chesnut colour; summits of
alæ oblique; orifice almost circular_.
_Var._ (5) crispatus (_Schröter_) (Pl. 1, fig. _h_): _pale blueish
or pinkish-purple, with irregular rough projections, or with short,
sharp, needle-like points; scuta with their exterior surface either
plain, or with radiating lines formed of hood-like projecting points_.
_Var._ (6) spinosus (_Gmelin_) (Pl. 1, fig. _i_): _globulo-conical
or cylindrical; shell rather thin, with long, upcurved, nearly
cylindrical, very sharp points; colours very pale; attached to other
specimens, and to Lepas anatifera_.
_Var._ (7) coccopoma (Pl. 1, fig. _d_; Pl. 2, fig. 1 _f_, 1 _l_,
1 _o_): _globulo-conical; orifice small, rounded; walls generally
smooth, thick; intense rose-colour, sometimes most faintly striped
longitudinally with varying shades of pink; radii tinged with
purple; scutum sometimes as in_ var. communis, _sometimes with its
basi-tergal corner much cut off, with the adductor ridge prominent,
the pit for the depressor muscle deep, and the articular ridge broad
and hooked; tergum sometimes as in_ var. communis, _sometimes with a
broader spur, placed nearer to the basi-scutal corner of the valve_.
_Var._ (8) concinnus (Pl. 1, fig. _e_; Pl. 2, fig. 1 _g_):
_globulo-conical; walls finely ribbed; dull purple, tinged and
freckled with white; scutum, with a broad, hooked, articular ridge,
with an extremely sharp plate-like adductor ridge, and with a cavity,
bordered by a plate, for the rostral depressor muscle; tergum as in_
var. 1.
_Var._ (9) intermedius: _radii with their summits slightly oblique;
parietes pale blueish purple, with narrow dark purplish-blue
longitudinal lines; sheath with the internal surface of the rostrum
and lateral compartments much darker colored than the internal
surface of the carina and carino-lateral compartments; scuta and
terga as in_ var. communis.
_Var._ (10) occator (Pl. 1, fig. _k_; Pl. 2, 1 _b_): _radii with
their summits slightly oblique; parietes smooth, or ribbed, or
spinose; very pale blueish-purple, with narrow darker longitudinal
lines; sheath with the internal surface of the rostrum and lateral
compartments dull blue, whilst the corresponding parts of the carina
and carino-lateral compartments are white; scuta with small, sharp,
hood-formed points, arranged in straight radiating lines; terga with
the spur placed at either its own width, or less than its own width,
from the basi-scutal angle_.
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