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Original Description
Innermost shell with irregular, polygonal meshes; its diameter twice as long as the distance between it and the second shell, quite as long as the distance between the third and fourth shells; the distance between the concentric shells gradually increasing from the centre. Radial spines twenty to thirty, each with ten to twelve verticils.
Diameter of the innermost shell (A) 0.5; distances of the following shells - A, B=0.025, B, C=0.037, C, D=0.05, D, E=0.062, E, F=0.075.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Arachnosphaera velaris under the subgeneric name Arachnosphaeromma , 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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