(Fig. 56. Nauplius of Sacculina purpurea, shortly before the second
moult, magnified 180 diam. We may recognise in the first pair of feet
the future adherent feet, and in the abdomen six pairs of natatory feet
with long setæ. Fig. 57. Pupa of a Balanide (Chthamalus ?), magnified.
The adherent feet are retracted within the rather opaque anterior part
of the shell. Fig. 58. Pupa of Sacculina purpurea, magnified. The
filaments on the adherent feet may be the commencements of the future
roots. Fig. 56. Nauplius of _Sacculina purpurea,_ shortly before the
second moult, magnified. We may recognise in the first pair of feet the
future adherent feet, and in the abdomen six pairs of natatory feet
with long setæ.
Fig. 57. Pupa of a Balanide (_Chthamalus ?_), magnified. The adherent
feet are retracted within the rather opaque anterior part of the shell.
Fig. 58. Pupa of _Sacculina purpurea,_ magnified. The filaments on the
adherent feet may be the commencements of the future roots.
At the base of the inferior antennæ in the Decapoda the so-called
“green-gland” has its opening; in the Macrura at the end of a conical
process. A similar conical process with an efferent duct traversing it
is very striking in most of the Amphipoda. In the Ostracoda, Zenker
describes a gland situated in the base of the inferior antennæ, and
opening at the extremity of an extraordinarily long “spine.” In the
Nauplii of _Cyclops_ and _Cyclopsine,_ Claus finds pale “shell-glands,”
which commence in the intermediate pair of limbs (the posterior
antennæ). On the other hand in the Nauplii of the Cirripedia and
Rhizocephala the “shell-glands” open at the ends of conical processes,
sometimes of most remarkable length, which spring from the angles of
the broad frontal margin, and have been interpreted sometimes as
antennæ (Burmeister, Darwin) and sometimes as mere “horns of the
carapace” (Krohn). The connexion of the “shell-glands” with the frontal
horns has been recognised unmistakably in the larvæ of _Lepas,_ and
indeed the resemblance of the frontal horns with the conical processes
on the inferior antennæ of the Amphipoda, is complete throughout.[5]
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