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Current identification:
Original Description
Inner cortical shell with six to eighteen chambers of different size and form. Both proximal chambers kidney-shaped, with six to seven transverse rows of subregular, circular pores, three to four times as broad as the bars. All following chambers with more irregular pores, with a circle of ten to twelve larger square pores at the base. Middle cortical shell with smaller, irregular, roundish pores. Outer cortical shell with larger polygonal, quite irregular pores. Both outer shells appear commonly incomplete or somewhat irregularly developed, and sometimes in a spongy manner interwoven with one another. Surface covered with irregular, bristle-like spines. Both medullary shells spheroidal. The breadth of the chambers decreases gradually towards both poles, so that the whole shell assumes a spindle form. Sometimes on both poles is developed a short conical polar tube (in fig. 13 only on the upper pole), and so this species is transformed into Zygartus chrysalis).
Size: Length of the six-chambered inner cortical shell 0.25, of the middle 0.3, of the outer 0.35; greatest breadth of the first 0.07, of the second 0.11, of the third 0.14; pores (on an average) 0.01 (0.002 to 0.02), bars 0.002 to 0.005.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
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 year 1873-1876, Zoology. 18: 1-1803. gsReferences:
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Zygocampe chrysalidium compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 18-4-2021
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