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Current identification/main database link: Lithocyclia Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Corpuscula disciformia, media parte nucleata, margine lato vage aut concentrice celluloso. (Mixta).
Cellula media ampla nucleata, marginales tenues in seriebus concentricis aut Spongiosae ordine nullo orbicularia.
Translation: Small, disc-shaped body, median part nucleate, with a sometimes wide or concentrically cellular margin. (Mixed). Median chamber wide and nucleate, margin delicate with concentric rows or irregular spongy. Circular. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek lithocyclia = circular stone
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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