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Current identification/main database link: Lithocampe
Original Description
E Familia Polycystinorum. Lorisae siliceae articuli in adulto in serie simplici recta cylindrica dispositi, apertura sub apice, laterali.
Translation: Of the family Polycystinae. Segments of the siliceous shell in the adult arranged in a simple series as a straight cylinder, aperture below the apex, lateral. (Translation from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)-]
Etymology: From the Greek lithocampe = stone-caterpillar
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Editors' Notes
[for ""Fig. IX. q"" read Fig. XI. q""
Taf.IV, Fig.XI.q. illustrates Lithocampe radicula Ehrenberg, 1839.]
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1839). Uber die Bilding der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtibare Organismen. Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1838: 59-147. gsReferences:
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