Notwithstanding their agreement in this important peculiarity, the
Nauplii of these two orders present material differences in many other
particulars. The abdomen of the young Cirripede is produced beneath the
anus into a long tail-like appendage which is furcate at the extremity,
and over the anus there is a second long, spine-like process; the
abdomen in the Rhizocephala terminates in two short points,—in a
“moveable caudal fork, as in the Rotatoria,” (O. Schmidt). The young
Cirripedes have a mouth, stomach, intestine, and anus, and their two
posterior pairs of limbs are beset with multifarious teeth, setæ, and
hooks, which certainly assist in the inception of nourishment. All this
is wanting in the young Rhizocephala. The Nauplii of the Cirripedia
have to undergo several moults whilst in that form; the Nauplii of the
Rhizocephala, being astomatous, cannot of course live long as Nauplii,
and in the course of only a few days they become transformed into
equally astomatous “pupæ,” as Darwin calls them.
The carapace folds itself together, so that the little animal acquires
the aspect of a bivalve shell, the foremost limbs become transformed
into very peculiar adherent feet (“prehensile antennæ,” Darwin), and
the two following pairs are cast off; like the frontal horns. On the
abdomen six pairs of powerful biramose natatory feet with long setæ
have been formed beneath the Nauplius-skin, and behind these are two
short, setigerous caudal appendages (Fig. 58).
The pupæ of the Cirripedia (Fig. 57), which are likewise astomatous,
agree completely in all these parts with those of the Rhizocephala,
even to the minutest details of the segmentation and bristling of the
natatory feet;[6] they are especially distinguished from them by the
possession of a pair of composite eyes. Sometimes also traces of the
frontal horns seem to persist.[7]
As the Cirripedia and Rhizocephala now in general resemble each other
far more than in their Nauplius-state, this is also the case with the
individual members of each of the two orders.
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