occludent

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Terga.—These are of a singular shape; they are about three-fourths as long as the occludent segment of the scuta, and in their widest part, of greater width than it.

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

Terga, large, flat, triangular; carinal margin slightly hollowed out; occludent margin slightly arched, with a small portion protuberant to a variable amount.

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

The occludent segment is bluntly pointed; it is directed a little inwards from the edge of the orifice towards the terga; the apex reaches up just above the slightly reflexed lower point of the terga.

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

Valves 2 to 5, minute, remote from each other: scuta with two or three lobes, with their umbones in the middle of the occludent margin: carina arched, upper and lower ends nearly alike.

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

The two occludent margins, generally meet each other at about right angles, forming a small triangular projection; in L. fascicularis, however, the occludent margin is formed by a single, slightly curved line.

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