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Current identification:
Original Description
Shell nut-shaped, tuberculate, with deep sagittal stricture and irregular, roundish pores. Basal plate with numerous small pores. Feet twenty to thirty, slender, curved, divergent, twice to three times as long as the shell, irregularly branched.
Shell 0.08 long, 0.12 broad; feet 0.15 to 0.25 long.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Gorgospyris thamnopodia under the subgeneric name Thamnospyris, but did not include the subgeneric name in 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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Gorgospyris thamnopodia compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 1-3-2021
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