RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The males of Saphirina, minute oceanic Crustacea are furnished with minute shields. CUL-DAR81.168. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 335-6, n11: "Claus, 'Die freilebenden Copepoden,' 1863, s. 35."
[168]
The males of Saphirina, minute oceanic Crustacea are furnished with minute shields or cells, which emit beautiful & changing colours: the females are destitute of this apparatus; as wd the males of one species, (Clams) - we may suspect that we have here sexual ornamentations.
Saphirina
Entomostraca
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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