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Current identification/main database link: Lophophaena Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Testa semel constricta. Articuli postremi apertura ampla. Costae spinescentes nullae. Capitulo strictura externa discreto. (Saepe cristato) spinarum corona postrema
Translation: Test with a single stricture. Last segment with a broad aperture. No spiny ribs. Cephalis separated by an external stricture. (Often crested) With no posterior corona of spines . (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek lophophaena = shell with a top-knot
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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