. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DEVELOPMENT OF EUPHAUSIA SUPERB A 91 First thoracic limb. The form of the ist thoracic appendage (Fig. 22 a) is not much altered, the endopod is five-segmented and heavily setose, and the exopod, as before, primitive in shape and bearing four bristles distally. The joint at the base of the endopod is not clear. The length of the limb is about three-quarters that of the succeeding thoracic e III a, thoracic limb I ( x 35); b, thoracic limb II ( x 35); </lV dy Fig. 22. Fourth Furcil


. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. DEVELOPMENT OF EUPHAUSIA SUPERB A 91 First thoracic limb. The form of the ist thoracic appendage (Fig. 22 a) is not much altered, the endopod is five-segmented and heavily setose, and the exopod, as before, primitive in shape and bearing four bristles distally. The joint at the base of the endopod is not clear. The length of the limb is about three-quarters that of the succeeding thoracic e III a, thoracic limb I ( x 35); b, thoracic limb II ( x 35); </lV dy Fig. 22. Fourth Furcilia (continued). d, gills I-VII, the base of Th. VI and vestigial Th. VII in front of luminous organ ( x 83); c, thoracic limb VI, lateral aspect ( x 35); e\, e ii, e iii, pleopods I, II and III ( x 35). Thoracic limbs II-VIII. Thoracic hmbs II-VIII are not greatly changed (Fig. 22 b, c). The exopods bear the following numbers of setae: Th. II inner margin 11, outer margin 7 in „ 13 „ 8 IV „ 13 „ 8 V „ 13 „ 8 VI „ II „ 7 Situated on the inner side of the yth gill and anterior to the luminous organ is a small digitate process not apparently branchial in function which is the vestige of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography of Great Britain; Great Britain. Colonial Office. Discovery Committee. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press


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