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Current identification/main database link: Perichlamydium Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Testae enucleatae e cellulis binis (longiludinaliter constrictae) aut e cellulis appositis multis coalitae.
Testarum cellulae concentricae aut spirales, lenues plurimae, passim ordine nullo spongiosae testae orbiculares non radiatae (Flustrae instar) disco limbato.
Translation: Test enucleate, with two chambers (longitudinally constriced), or formed of many chambers grown together (spread in a plane or rounded and subglobose). Chambers of test concentric or spiral, mostly delicate, spongy and irregular. Test circular, not radiate. Disc with arms. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek perichlamydium = shell surrounded by a mantle"
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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