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Arachnosphaera dichotoma Jørgensen 1900 = Arachnosphaera dichotoma | ||||
not figured | Arachnosphaera dolichacantha Haeckel 1887 | |||
![]() | Arachnosphaera hexasphaera Popofsky 1912 | |||
not figured | Arachnosphaera increscens Haeckel 1887 | |||
Arachnosphaera irregularis Mast 1910 | ||||
![]() | Arachnosphaera myriacantha Haeckel 1860 = Arachnosphaera myriacantha | |||
![]() | Arachnosphaera oligacantha Haeckel 1860 | |||
not figured | Arachnosphaera tenuissima Haeckel 1887 | |||
not figured | Arachnosphaera velaris Haeckel 1887 |
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Current identification/main database link: Arachnosphaera Haeckel 1860
Original Description
Skelet besteht aus mehreren (4-6) concentrischen, durch radiale Stacheln verbundenen Gitterkugeln, von denen nur die innerste, die kugelige Centralkapsel einschliefsende, regulär sechseckige und gleiche Maschen besitzt, während die übrigen aus ungleichen und unregelmäfsigen polygonalen Maschen zusammengesetzt sind.
Translation: Shell composed of many (4-6) latticed spheres which are united by radial spines, and from which only the inner one, containing the globular central capsule, has regular, uniform, hexagonal pores, when the other ones are composed of irregular meshes of different size. (In German. Translated by J.P.C.)]
Etymology: From the Greek arachne= spider web and sphaira= sphere"
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Editors' Notes
See also Litharachnium in Mivart, 1878
Haeckel, E (1861a). Uber neue, lebende Radiolarien des Mittelmeeres und legte die dazu gehorigen Abbildungen. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1860: 794-817. gsReferences:
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