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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Xiphosphaera gigantea Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> X -> Xiphosphaera -> Xiphosphaera gigantea
Other pages this level: X. apenninica, X. apenninica longistylus, X. astraea, X. ceres, X. clarki, X. clavigera, X. euphrosyne, X. flora, X. gaea, X. gigantea, X. hebe, X. irinae, X. juno, X. longa, X. luna, X. maxima, X. micra, X. mutinensis, X. pallas, X. planeta, X. tesseractis, X. venus, X. vesta

Xiphosphaera gigantea

Citation: Xiphosphaera gigantea Haeckel 1887
taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.125
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Actinommidae
Family (modern): Pantanelliidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Pores regular, circular, two to three times as broad as the bars; twenty-eight to thirty-two on the half equator. Shell thick walled, covered with short conical thorns. Polar spines three-sided pyramidal, about as long as the radius of the sphere, as broad at the base as three pores.

Diameter of the sphere 0.25 to 0.3, pores 0.01, bars 0.004; polar spines 0.1 to 0.15 long, 0.03 broad. [dimensions in mm]

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Xiphosphaera gigantea under the subgeneric name Xiphosphaerella, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.

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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Xiphosphaera gigantea compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 20-9-2024

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