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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Choenicosphaera murrayana Haeckel 1887

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

Choenicosphaera murrayana

Citation: Choenicosphaera murrayana Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.102
Type specimens: pl.8, fig.4
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Collosphaeridae
Family (modern): Collosphaeridae

Current identification/main database link: Acrosphaera murrayana (Haeckel) Hilmers 1906


Original Description

Shell spherical, with large circular or roundish pores of unequal size, two to four times as broad as the bars. Ten to twelve pores in the half meridian of the shell. Margin of every pore with a coronal of six to nine short and acute spines, not longer than the half diameter of the pore. No spines between the pores.

Diameter of the shell 160 to 200µm, of the pores 20 to 30µm; length of the spines 8 to 12µm.
Common.

Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Choenicosphaera murrayana under the subgeneric name Choenicosphaerula, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.
New names Acrosphaera murrayana (Haeckel) in Hilmers, 1906, and Polysolenia murrayana (Haeckel) in Nigrini, 1968]

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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