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Original Description
Shell smooth, subcylindrical, thick-walled, constricted at both poles, without distinct, external strictures, but with seven internal septal rings. Eight joints of different lengths; four joints (the second to the fifth) being about twice as long as the four others (the first and the three last). The constricted mouth only one-third as broad as the four middle joints. Pores small and numerous, subregular, circular.
Size: Length of the shell (with eight joints) 0.19, breadth 0.09. Length of the second to the fifth joints, each 0.03; length of the four other joints, each about 0.016.
Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Lithocampe octocola under the subgeneric name Lithocampium, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.[comment from RadWorld database]
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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Lithocampe octocola compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 9-3-2021
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