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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Stylosphaera melpomene Haeckel 1887

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Stylosphaera melpomene

Citation: Stylosphaera melpomene Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.135
Type specimens: pl.16, fig.1
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Actinommidae
Family (modern): Hexalonchidae

Current identification/main database link: Hexacontium melpomene (Haeckel) Van de Paverd 1995


Original Description

Radial proportion of the two shells = 3: 1. Cortical shell thin walled, spiny, with regular, circular pores, four times as broad as the bars; eight to ten on the half equator. Polar spines three-sided prismatic, pointed, as broad as one pore, only one-third as long as the axis of the sphere (the two shells connected by four thin beams, two opposite in the main axis, two in the equatorial axis).

Diameter of the outer shell 0.12, pores 0.012, bars 0.003; inner shell 0.04 length of the polar spines 0.04, thickness 0.013. [dimensions in mm]

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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