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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Chitonastrum dicranodes Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> C -> Chitonastrum -> Chitonastrum dicranodes
Other pages this level: C. bathybium, C. dicranodes, C. jugatum, C. lyra, C. triglochin

Chitonastrum dicranodes

Citation: Chitonastrum dicranodes Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.538
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Spongodiscidae

Current identification:


Original Description

All three arms in the basal half simple, nearly square, in the distal half forked; branches straight, blunt. Odd arm twice as large as the paired arms; angle between the latter larger than the angles between them and the odd arm. (The form of the arms resembles Dicranastrum furcatum, Pl. 47, fig. 2.)

Radius of the odd arm 0.24, of the paired arms 0.12; basal breadth 0.06. [dimensions in mm]

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Chitonastrum dicranodes under the subgeneric name Chitonastromma, 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 years 1873-1876. 18: 1-1803. gs O


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