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
To begin with _Coronula diadema_ the great infra-œsophageal ganglion
(Pl. 27, fig. 1, A) is seated nearly opposite to the anterior margin of
the second pair of cirri, which are homologous with the first pair of
legs in the decapod Crustaceans. This ganglion shows no trace of any
longitudinal medial suture; its shape is hardly discoverable, for it
is formed by the union of eleven principal pairs of nerves, besides
several arising from its under surface; in outline, however, it may be
said to be divided into a posterior and anterior half; the latter being
somewhat heart-shaped, and the posterior half elongated. The nerves
going to the five posterior pairs of cirri rise from the posterior
margin of the ganglion, and run for some distance in a sheet, parallel
and close together; the pair, however, going to the second pair of
cirri soon branches off from the others. Each of these nerves enters at
the inner and posterior margin of the cirrus to which it belongs, and,
at least in the case of the first pair, divides into two branches as it
enters. The nerves (Pl. 27, fig. 1, _r^5_, _r^6_) going to the fifth
and sixth pairs of cirri are more closely united together than are the
others, and appear, till they branch off, like a single large nerve.
That which belongs to the sixth cirrus gives off, opposite to the
fifth cirrus, a branch (_s_) nearly as large as itself, which enters
the probosciformed penis. I may remark, that homologically this is the
only abdominal nerve in any cirripede of the Order. From the under side
of the nerves which run to the five posterior pairs of cirri, small
branches are given off, extending dorsally into the thorax.
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