scuta
Americannoun
noun
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Shape of Body, Sack, Colours, &c.—From the position of the orifice of the capitulum, the animal's body is suspended to the scuta in a more transverse direction than is usual.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Capitulum oval, blending insensibly into the peduncle; moderately flattened; composed of thin structureless membrane, with the exception of two horny, almost quite hidden scuta.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Var., with a row of square, dark-coloured marks on the scuta and terga. 1a.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Capitulum with two tubular ear-like appendages, seated behind the rudimentary and often absent terga; scuta bilobed; carina absent, or quite rudimentary; peduncle long, distinctly separated from the capitulum.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
In a half-grown specimen, with a capitulum only 3/10ths of an inch long, all the lower valves were considerably larger in proportion to the scuta, terga, and carina, than in full-grown individuals.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
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