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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Amphitholonium octostylium Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> A -> Amphitholonium -> Amphitholonium octostylium
Other pages this level: A. acanthonium, A. octostylium, A. pylonium, A. transversarum, A. tricolonium

Amphitholonium octostylium

Citation: Amphitholonium octostylium Haeckel 1887
taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.669
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): not-known

Current identification:


Original Description

Outer cortical shell lentelliptical, smooth, not articulated, at a varying distance from the three-jointed inner shell; central chamber of the latter twice as high as both hemispherical cupolas. Network of the outer shell very thin, cob-web like. Pores of the inner shell subregular, roundish, twice as broad as the bars; six to seven in the semicircle of one cupola. Eight thin and long, bristle-shaped, radial spines, opposite in pairs in two crossed diagonal planes.

Major axis of the outer cortical shell 160µm, minor 120µm; major axis of the inner cortical shell 12µm, minor 90µm; pores 10µm, bars 5µm.

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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