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
_Scuta_, externally very convex, with the growth-ridges extremely
prominent; basal margin sinuous, the middle portion being prominent;
this is best seen in young specimens (Pl. 3, fig. 2 _d_). Internally,
the articular ridge is broad and reflexed. The adductor ridge in the
upper part is almost confluent with the articular ridge; it runs down
to the most prominent point of the basal margin; in young specimens
it is sharp and prominent; in old specimens it is very blunt and
little prominent. There is a rather deep hollow for the lateral
depressor muscle. In young specimens there is a small, depending,
blunt tooth at the basi-tergal angle, which helps to make the basal
margin more deeply sinuous.
_Terga_, with the longitudinal furrow closed, except on the spur
itself, where it is open. The spur is moderately long and broad, but
varies in breadth; it is placed at rather less than its own width
from the basi-scutal angle; its lower end is obliquely rounded; the
basal margin on the opposite sides of the spur, together form a
nearly straight line. The whole valve is rather broad. The crests for
the tergal depressores are barely developed.
The _Compartments_ have rather large parietal tubes; the septa are
coarsely denticulated at their bases; the internal lamina is smooth,
except close to the basis. The _radii_ have their summits parallel
to the basis; their sutural edges are formed of rather thick septa,
which stand at an unusual distance apart from each other, and have
perfectly symmetrical, minute denticuli on each side. The interspaces
between the septa are filled up solidly to within a short distance of
the surface; but yet not so completely as in the following species,
and as in those in the succeeding sections of the genus; this is what
might have been expected from the close affinity of _B. stultus_ to
_B. Ajax_, in which latter the radii are still permeated by pores,
though smaller than is general in the species of our first section
(A). The _alæ_ have their summits extremely oblique, and their
sutural edges, I believe, smooth. _Basis_ porose, with an underlying,
finely-cancellated layer.
_Mouth_: labrum with six small teeth; mandibles with the 3d tooth
blunt; the 4th minute, and the 5th almost confluent with the inferior
angle. Maxillæ with the edge straight and simple. _Cirri_ partly
destroyed; on each segment of the sixth pair there were five pairs of
spines.
10. BALANUS CALCEOLUS. Pl. 3, fig. 3 _a_-3 _e_.
BALANUS CALCEOLUS KERATOPHYTO INVOLUTUS (?) _Ellis._ Phil. Trans.,
vol. 50 (1758), Tab. 34, fig. 19.
LEPAS CALCEOLUS (?) _Pallas._ Elench. Zooph., p. 198, (sine
descript.) (1766).
CONOPEA OVATA (?) _J. E. Gray._ Annals of Philosophy, vol. x, 1825.
_Parietes and basis porose. Scutum with the pit for the lateral
depressor muscle small and deep._
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