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Original Description
Shell rough, pear-shaped, with three deep strictures. The three first joints are of equal lengths, and each half as long as the hemispherical fourth joint. Cephalis subspherical, with an oblique conical horn of the same length. The third joint is the broadest, three times as broad as long. Pores regular, circular.
Length of the shell (with four joints) 150µm, breadth 90µm; length of each of the three first joints 30µm, of the last 60µm.
Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Cyrtocapsa tetrapera under the subgeneric name Cyrtocapsella, but did not include the subgeneric name 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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