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Original Description
Shell pyramidal, with two sharp strictures. Length of the three joints = 1: 1: 4, breadth = 1: 2: 4. Cephalis subspherical, with an oblique pyramidal horn of the same length. Thorax somewhat larger. Abdomen inflated, with three sharp, prominent edges, which are prolonged over the shell-base into three pyramidal, hollow, and fenestrated feet, longer than the thorax. Pores subregular, circular, twice as broad in the abdomen as in the thorax.
Size: Length of the three joints, a 0.025, b 0.025, c 0.1; breadth, a 0.025, b 0.05, c 0.1.
Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Lithochytris galeata under the subgeneric name Lithochytridium, 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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Lithochytris galeata compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 9-3-2021
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