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Current identification/main database link: Lithochytris Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Apertura unica (simplex aut cancellala). Testularum articuli seu stricturae distincta. Testae stricturis pluribus, articulo postico clauso postica parte lobata aut appendicibus (aculeis).
Translation: Aperture single (simple or latticed). Test with segments or distinct strictures. Test with more than one stricture, last segment closed. Posterior part lobate or distinguished by appendages (spines). (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek lithochytris = pot of silex
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Editors' Notes
[Synonymized with Podocyrtis by Haeckel, 1862, p.337]
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1846). Uber eine halibiolithische, von Herrn R. Schomburgk entdeckte, vorherrschend aus mikroskopischen Polycystinen gebildete, Gebirgsmasse von Barbados. Bericht uber die zu Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1846: 382-385. gsReferences:
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