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Current identification/main database link: Acrosphaera Haeckel 1881
Original Description
1. Subfamilia: Acrosphaerida. Symbelaria testis clathratis simplicibus subglobosis irregularibus.
B. testa spinosa, spinis basi clathratis.
Translation: 1. Subfamily: Acrosphaerida. Symbelaria with simple, irregular subspherical latticed tests.
B. With test spiny, the spines latticed at the base. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: Greek acrosphaera = pointed-sphere"
Editors' Notes
[Synonymized with Polysolenia Ehrenberg by Nigrini, 1967]
Haeckel, E. (1882). Entwurf eines Radiolarien-Systems auf Grund von Studien der Challenger-Radiolarien [Basis for a radiolarian classification from the study of Radiolaria of the Challenger collection]. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. 15: 418-472. gsReferences:
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