exuviation

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In the course of little more than a year five exuviations took place at irregular intervals, the new shell and animal becoming larger each time.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

From this rapid growth, repeated exuviations must be requisite.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

It is known that the intervals between exuviations are largely dependent upon the amount of food taken and the rate of growth.

From Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) by Burkett, Ray D.

Messrs. V. Thompson, Goodsir, and Bate, have kept alive for several days the larv� of Lepas, Conchoderma, Balanus, Verruca, and Chthamalus, and have described the changes which supervene between the first and third exuviations.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles