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... Milne Edwards, in certain crustacea. In specimens just attached, in which no absorption has taken place, two long muscles with transverse striae may be found attached to the knobbed tips of the two middle arms of the two deg.UU deg., and running up to the antero-dorsal surface of the carapace, where they are attached; other muscles (without transverse striae) are attached round the bases, on both sides of both forks. The action of these muscles would inevitably move the eyes, but I suspect that their function may be to draw up the narrow, ... — A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin |