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scuta
[ skyoo-tuh ]
scuta
/ ˈskjuːtə /
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Operculum, or opercular valves.These consist of a pair of scuta and a pair of terga.
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Cirripedia without a peduncle; scuta and terga furnished with depressor muscles; other valves united immoveably together.
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Altogether the scuta and terga are attached, as far as muscles are concerned, to the shell and sack, by three longitudinal pairs.
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This articulation of the scuta and terga is prefigured amongst the Lepadid, in Pollicipes mitella, and in Lithotrya.
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In shape the scuta are generally sub-triangular; but in some species of Pyrgoma and in Chelonobia, &c. they are much elongated.
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