occludent
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The occludent margin is straight, and is bordered by a narrow step or ledge, formed of transverse growth-ridges, and therefore has its edge serrated: the rostral angle is often slightly produced into a small projection.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Complemental Male flask-formed, with four rudimentary valves; no mouth; cirri not prehensile; attached to the occludent margin of the scutum, near the umbo.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The spike and cutting edge together answer to the double occludent margin of the tergum in Lepas.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Valves 5, approximate; scuta with their umbones in the middle of the occludent margin; carina rectangularly bent, extending up between the terga, with the basal end simply concave.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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 Charles Darwin
