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Current identification/main database link: Lithomelissa Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Testae strictura unica, neutro fine lobato, latera spinis alta
Translation: Test with a single stricture. Neither end lobate. Lateral wing-like spines. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek lithomelissa = stone bee
Extra details from original publication
Sub-genera described:
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1847). Uber die mikroskopischen kieselschaligen Polycystinen als machtige Gebirgsmasse von Barbados und uber das Verhaltniss der aus mehr als 300 neuen Arten bestehenden ganz eigenthumlichen Formengruppe jener Felsmasse zu den jetzt lebenden Tieren und zur. Bericht uber die zu Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1847: 41-60. gsReferences:
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