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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Botryopyle dionisi Petrushevskaya 1975

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> B -> Botryopyle -> Botryopyle dionisi
Other pages this level: B. cristata, B. dictyocephalus, B. dionisi, B. erinaceus, B. hexapora, B. inclusa, B. sethocorys, B. setosa, B. stenostoma

Botryopyle dionisi

Citation: Botryopyle dionisi Petrushevskaya 1975
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.589
Type specimens: pl.13, fig.18; pl.26, fig.10
Type repository: Holotype No. 63216. Marine Dept., Zoological Institute, Acad. of Sc., St Petersburg, Russia
Family (traditional): Cannobotryidae
Family (modern): Botryocyrtidae

Current identification/main database link: Botryopyle dionisi Petrushevskaya 1975


Original Description

The shell is laterally flattened and very thick-walled. The surface of the eucephalic lobe and even the surface of the antecephalic lobe is a little rough, untypical for the genus. The height of the antecephalic lobe is up to 75µm. Postcephalic part as a short tube. Spine D is not perpendicular to the spine A, but the angle is about 130µm. 

Size:
The maximum shell width is up to 90µm.

Editors' Notes
Description is based on 35 specimens from Site 278, Cores 25-29.

References:

Petrushevskaya, M. G. (1975a). Cenozoic radiolarians of the Antarctic, Leg 29, DSDP. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 29: 541-675. gs O


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