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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Choenicosphaera flosculenta Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> C -> Choenicosphaera -> Choenicosphaera flosculenta
Other pages this level: C. flammabunda, C. flosculenta, C. murrayana, C. nassiterna

Choenicosphaera flosculenta

Citation: Choenicosphaera flosculenta Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.103
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM28
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Shell spherical, with large circular or roundish pores of different size, three to six times as broad as the bars. Six to eight pores in the half meridian of the shell. Margin of every pore somewhat prominent, with a coronal of ten to twenty parallel acute spines of different length, the largest somewhat longer than the diameter of the pore. No spines between the pores.

Size:
Diameter of the shell 0.12 to 0.15, of the pores 0.02 to 0.04; length of the spines 0.02 to 0.05.

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Choenicosphaera flosculenta under the subgeneric name Choenicosphaerula, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.[comment from RadWorld database]

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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