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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Spongolena Haeckel 1887

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not figuredSpongolena cypselura Haeckel 1887

Spongolena lataformis Clark & Campbell 1942

not figuredSpongolena rhopalura Haeckel 1887

not figuredSpongolena spongura Haeckel 1887

Spongolena

Citation: Spongolena Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: genus
Type species: Spongolena rhopalura Haeckel 1887 [designated by Campbell,1954, p.D94]
Described on page(s) : 587
Family (traditional): not-known

Current identification:


Original Description

Spongodiscida with two opposite spongy arms on the margin of the disk, without a connecting patagium.

The genus Spongolena opens the series of the Spongobrachida, or of the Spongodiscida provided with radial spongy arms on the margin of the disk. Spongolena is the most simple form of this subfamily, and bears only two simple opposite arms, without a connecting patagium. It corresponds to Amphibrachium (Porodiscida) and to Diplactura (Coccodiscida). Also there is no patagium. Spongolena may easily be confounded with Spongurus (compare my Prodromus, 1881, p.461); but in the true Spongurus (an ellipsoid) the transverse section is circular, in Spongolena elliptical.

Etymology:
Greek spongolena = spongy disk with two arms"

References:

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 years 1873-1876. 18: 1-1803. gs O


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