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Current identification/main database link: Lychnocanium Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Apertura testae duplex opposita. Testa semel constricta. articuli postremi apertura constricta aut margine connivente, nec sensim ampliore...aculeis pedicellata.
Translation: Aperture of the test double, opposite. Test with a single constriction. Posterior segments with constricted aperture or a closed margin, and not gradually widening. Spines forming feet. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek lychnocanium = lantern-basket
Extra details from original publication
Sub-genera described:
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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