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Current identification:
Original Description
Cephalis small, hemispherical, with small, roundish pores and divergent radial spines. Thorax flatly conical, spiny, with twenty to twenty-four divergent, straight ribs, which in the proximal third are separated by the same number of large, triangular meshes, in the middle third connected by irregular network, in the distal third free.
Cephalis 20µm long, 30µm broad; thorax 60µm long, 150µm broad.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Acanthocorys polypodia under the subgeneric name Acanthocorythium, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.
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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