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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Lophophaena radians Ehrenberg 1873

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> L -> Lophophaena -> Lophophaena radians
Other pages this level: << < L. foveolata, L. galeaorci, L. galeata, L. gibba, L. globeacuculla, L. kamikurii, L. kojmatensis, L. larvata, L. leberu, L. liothorax, L. lynx, L. macrencephala, L. nadezdae, L. neuma, L. pileata, L. radians, L. rhopalica, L. rioplatensis, L. sibirica, L. simplex, L. tekopua, L. thaumasia, L. triangula

Lophophaena radians

Citation: Lophophaena radians Ehrenberg 1873
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.243
Type repository: Ehrenberg's collection, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Family (traditional): Plagiacanthidae
Family (modern): Lophophaenidae

Current identification/main database link: Lophophaena radians (Ehrenberg 1873)


Original Description

[Smooth, cephalis ovate-globose, the posterior part extended as a short second segment; with the frontal periphery ornamented with a crown of simple (or occasionally branched and reticulate) spines; the whole surface irregularly porous. Second segment narrower above and broader below than the first one, with a broad aperture occasionally ornamented with sparse spines, or entire. Pores equal in size, occasionally larger on the cephalis; branches of the cephalic spines rectangular or occasionally confluent. Length without spines 8O µ. Maximum width 47 µ. Length of spine 31 µ, cephalis 47 µ. Approximately 3 separate pores in 23 µ. An elegant species. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]

References:

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1874b). Grössere Felsproben des Polycystinen-Mergels von Barbados mit weiteren Erläuterungen. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1873: 213-263. gs


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