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Original Description
Outer shell thin walled, thorny, with regular network; pores circular, simple, small, two to three times as broad as the thin bars; eighteen to twenty-four on the half equator. Proportion of the major axis to the minor = 4: 3. Inner shell ellipsoidal, half as large as the outer. Polar spines cylindrical, blunt, thin, very variable in length (one-fourth to three-fourths of the major axis, not thicker than a mesh).
Longer axis of the ellipsoid 0.07 to 0.09, shorter axis 0.05 to 0.07; pores 0.005 to 0.006, bars 0.002; length of the polar spines 0.02 to 0.06, basal breadth 0.004; length of the inner shell 0.04, breadth 0.03.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Lithatractus cirsium under the subgeneric name Lithatractylis, 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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Lithatractus cirsium compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 7-3-2021
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