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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Stylosphaera musa Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> S -> Stylosphaera -> Stylosphaera musa
Other pages this level: << < S. lithatractus, S. losbanosensis, S. macropora, S. macropora microaculeata, S. megadictya, S. megaxyphos, S. megaxyphos megaxyphos, S. megaxyphos pentaxyphos, S. megaxyphos tetraxyphos, S. megaxyphos trixyphos, S. melpomene, S. minor, S. minor brevihastata, S. minor leptoxyphos, S. minor minor, S. musa, S. nana, S. polyhymnia, S. radiosa, S. raripora, S. setosa, S. simplex, S. spinulosa, S. sulcata, S. terpsichore, S. testudo, S. thalia, S. trixyphophora, S. undulata, S. urania

Stylosphaera musa

Citation: Stylosphaera musa Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.133
Type age (chronostrat): Quaternary
Type locality: LM52
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Radial proportion of the two concentric spheres = 3: 1. Cortical shell thin walled, smooth, with regular, hexagonal pores, three times as broad as the thin bars; twelve on the half equator. Polar spine, three-sided pyramidal, as long as the axis of the cortical shell, one-tenth as broad at the base.

Size:
Diameter of the outer shell 0.2, pores 0.01, bars 0.003; diameter of the inner shell 0.06; length of the polar spines 0.2, basal breadth 0.02.

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)

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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