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![]() | Pterocodon anteclinata Foreman 1975 = Pterocodon anteclinata | |||
![]() | Pterocodon apis Ehrenberg 1873 = Pterocodon apis | |||
![]() | ![]() | Pterocodon campana Ehrenberg 1847 = Pterocodon campana | ||
![]() | Pterocodon campanella Ehrenberg 1873 = Pterocodon campanella | |||
![]() | Pterocodon davisianus Ehrenberg 1862 | |||
not figured | Pterocodon favosus Haeckel 1887 | |||
![]() | Pterocodon lex Sanfilippo & Riedel 1979 = Pterocodon lex | |||
![]() | Pterocodon ornatus Haeckel 1887 | |||
![]() | Pterocodon poculum Nishimura 1992 = Pterocodon poculum | |||
![]() | Pterocodon tenellus Foreman 1973 = Pterocodon tenellus |
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Current identification/main database link: Pterocodon Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Testa duabus pluribusve stricturis articulata. Corporis postremo fine non arctato. Appendicibus a secundo articulo, alarum instar, productis.
Translation: Test segmented by two or more strictures. Body not narrowed at posterior end. Appendages produced from the second segment, in the form of wings. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek pterocodon = bell with wings"
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1847). Uber die mikroskopischen kieselschaligen Polycystinen als machtige Gebirgsmasse von Barbados und uber das Verhaltniss der aus mehr als 300 neuen Arten bestehenden ganz eigenthumlichen Formengruppe jener Felsmasse zu den jetzt lebenden Tieren und zur. Bericht uber die zu Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1847: 41-60. gsReferences:
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Pterocodon compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 21-1-2021
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