Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller
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page 73 of 127 (57%)
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(Krohn). The connexion of the "shell-glands" with the frontal horns has
been recognised unmistakably in the larvae of Lepas, and indeed the resemblance of the frontal horns with the conical processes on the inferior antennae of the Amphipoda, is complete throughout.* (* In connexion with this it may be mentioned that, in the females of Brachyscelus, in which the posterior antennae are deficient, the conical processes with the canal permeating them are nevertheless retained.) (FIGURE 57. Pupa of a Balanide (Chthamalus ?), magnified 50 diam. The adherent feet are retracted within the rather opaque anterior part of the shell. FIGURE 58. Pupa of Sacculina purpurea, magnified 180 diam. The filaments on the adherent feet may be the commencements of the future roots.) 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, setae, 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 "pupae," as Darwin calls them. |
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