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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Stylosphaera terpsichore Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> S -> Stylosphaera -> Stylosphaera terpsichore
Other pages this level: << < 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 terpsichore

Citation: Stylosphaera terpsichore Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.137
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Actinommidae
Family (modern): Stylosphaeridae

Current identification:


Original Description

Radial proportion of the two shells = 3:1 or 4:1. (Cortical shell thick walled, smooth, with irregular, roundish pores, one to three times as broad as the bars; fifteen to twenty-five on the half equator. Polar spines conical, about as long, as the axis of the outer sphere, as broad at the base as the inner shell.

Diameter of the outer shell 0.15 to 0.2, pores 0.005 to 0.02, bars 0.004 to 0.008; inner shell 0.05; length of the polar spines 0.15 to 0.25, basal breadth 0.05. [dimensions in mm]

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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