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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Acanthosphaera reticulata Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> A -> Acanthosphaera -> Acanthosphaera reticulata

Other pages this level: << < A. heliacantha, A. hirsutissima, A. kreyenhagensis, A. longispina, A. macropora, A. marginata, A. maxima, A. micropora, A. mucronata, A. octahedralis, A. pachyconcha, A. parvula, A. pentagonalis, A. pinchuda, A. polyacerosa, A. reticulata, A. setosa, A. simplex, A. spinosa, A. stalactites, A. tenera, A. teneriformis, A. tenuis, A. trichophora, A. zonaster

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Acanthosphaera reticulata

Citation: Acanthosphaera reticulata Haeckel 1887

Rank: species

Type specimens: pl.26, fig.5

Type repository: No information given

Described on page(s) : p.217

Family (traditional): Actinommidae

Family (modern): Actinommidae

Current identification:

Original Description
Shell thick walled, with irregular, roundish pores, twice to four times as broad as the bars; .six to eight on the radius. Surface of the bars covered with a peculiar delicate network of very fine crests. Twenty to forty radial spines, angular, pyramidal, scarcely one-third as long as the radius of the shell, as broad at the base as the bars.

Diameter of the shell 220µm, pores 20µm to 40µm, bars 10µm; length of the spines 40µm, basal breadth 10µm.

Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Acanthosphaera reticulata under the subgeneric name Rhaphidosphaera, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.

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 year 1873-1876, Zoology. 18: 1-1803. gs

Acanthosphaera reticulata compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 24-1-2022

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