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Proportion of the longer axis to the shorter = 6: 5. Shell thin walled, with irregular, lobed meshes, six to eight on the half equator, twice to five times as broad as the bars; each-mesh composed of two to five confluent roundish pores. Surface a little thorny. The single polar spine pyramidal, as broad at the base as one mesh, one-third as long as the axis.
Size: Major axis 0.12, minor axis 0.1; pores 0.01 to 0.02, bars 0.002 to 0.006; length of the single polar spine 0.03, basal thickness 0.02.
Haeckel, E (1887). Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the year 1873-1876, Zoology. 18: 1-1803. gsReferences:
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Lithapium halicapsa compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 16-1-2021
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