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Original Description
Shell thin walled, with irregular polygonal meshes, twelve to twenty times as broad as the bars; eight to ten on the radius. Radial spines bristle-shaped, arising from all the nodal-points of the network, about as long as the diameter of the largest meshes.
Diameter of the shell 15 to 2µm, pores 12 to 20µm, bars 1µm; length of the spines 20µm.
Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Acanthosphaera capillaris under the subgeneric name Rhaphidodrymus,, 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. gs Nishimura, A. & Yamauchi, M. (1984a). Radiolarians from the Nankai Trough in the northwest Pacific. News of Osaka Micropaleontologists, Special Volume. 6: 1-148. gsReferences:
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Acanthosphaera capillaris compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 26-2-2021
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