Figs. 53 and 54. Nauplii of Copepoda, the former magnified, the latter
magnified 2x. Fig. 55. Nauplius of Tetraclita porosa after the first
moult, magnified 90 diam. The brain is seen surrounding the eye, and
from it the olfactory filaments issue; behind it are some delicate
muscles passing to the buccal hood. Fig. 53 and 54. Nauplii of
Copepoda, the former magnified, the latter magnified 2x.
Fig. 55. Nauplius of _Tetraclita porosa_ after the first moult,
magnified. The brain is seen surrounding the eye, and from it the
olfactory filaments issue; behind it are some delicate muscles passing
to the buccal hood.
There is only one thing more to be indicated in the developmental
history of the parasitic Crustacea, namely that some of them, such as
_Achtheres percarum,_ certainly quit the egg like the rest in a
Nauplius-like form, inasmuch as the plump, oval, astomatous body bears
two pairs of simple rowing feet, and behind these, as traces of the
third pair, two inflations furnished each with a long seta, but that
beneath this Nauplius-skin a very different larva lies ready prepared,
which in a few hours bursts its clumsy envelope and then makes its
appearance in a form “which agrees in the segmentation of the body and
in the development of the extremities with the first _Cyclops-stage_”
(Claus). The entire series of Nauplius-stages which are passed through
by the free Copepoda, are in this case completely over-leapt.
A final and very peculiar section of the Crustacea is formed by the two
orders of the Cirripedia and Rhizocephala.[4]
In these also the brood bursts out in the Nauplius-form, and speedily
strips off its earliest larva-skin which is distinguished by no
peculiarities worth noticing. Here also we find again the same pyriform
shape of the unsegmented body, the same number and structure of the
feet, the same position of the median eye (which, however, is wanting
in _Sacculina purpurea,_ and according to Darwin in some species of
_Lepas_), and the same position of the “buccal hood,” as in the Nauplii
of the Prawns and Copepoda. From the latter the Nauplii of the
Cirripedia and Rhizocephala are distinguished by the possession of a
dorsal shield or carapace, which sometimes (_Sacculina purpurea_)
projects far beyond the body all round; and they are distinguished not
only from other Nauplii, but as far as I know from all other Crustacea,
by the circumstance that structures which are elsewhere combined with
the two anterior limbs (antennæ), here occur separated from them.
The anterior antennæ of the Copepoda, Cladocera, Phyllopoda (Leydig,
Claus), Ostracoda (at least the Cypridinæ), Diastylidæ, Edriophthalma,
and Podophthalma, with few exceptions relating to terrestrial animals
or parasites, bear peculiar filaments which I have already repeatedly
mentioned as “olfactory filaments.” A pair of similar filaments spring,
in the larvæ of the Cirripedia and Rhizocephala, directly from the
brain.
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