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Current identification/main database link: Cycladophora Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Apertura teslae duplex opposita. Testa articulata, stricturis duabus aut pluribus - corporis postica parte non coarctata, ampla
Translation: Aperture of the test double, opposite. Test segmented, with two or more strictures. Posterior part of the body broad, not narrowing. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek cycladophora = bearing a female robe"
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Editors' Notes
[Four new species were recognized at the time of the generic definition.]
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1846). Uber eine halibiolithische, von Herrn R. Schomburgk entdeckte, vorherrschend aus mikroskopischen Polycystinen gebildete, Gebirgsmasse von Barbados. Bericht uber die zu Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1846: 382-385. gsReferences:
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