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Original Description
Testae stricturae plures. Postremo articulo integro. Spendicibus mediis alata .
Translation: Test with more than one stricture. Last segment entire. With winglike median appendages. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek lithornithium = stone bird
Editors' Notes
[See Cornutella and Lithopera in Ehrenberg, 1847]
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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Lithornithium compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 18-4-2021
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