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Original Description
Cortical shell thick walled, with regular, circular, hexagonally framed pores, three times as broad as the bars. Both medullary shells with simple, circular, regular pores, of the same breadth as the bars. Radial proportion of the three spheres = 2: 5: 9; radial beams between them twenty, prolonged outside into twenty symmetrically disposed, three-sided pyramidal spines, as long as the radius.
Diameter of the outer shell 180µm, middle 10µm, inner 40µm; cortical pores 10µm, bars 3µm; length of the spines 100µm, basal breadth 12µm.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Actinomma japonicum under the subgeneric name Actinommetta, 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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