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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Phacodiscus grandis Haeckel 1887

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> P -> Phacodiscus -> Phacodiscus grandis
Other pages this level: P. calvertanus, P. clypeus, P. coronoides, P. duplus, P. duplus ukrainicus, P. grandis, P. lentiformis, P. licharevi, P. rotula, P. subsphaericus, P. testatus

Phacodiscus grandis

Citation: Phacodiscus grandis Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.425
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Coccodiscidae
Family (modern): Coccodiscidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Disk with thorny surface, five times as broad as the outer, and fifteen times as broad as the inner medullary shell. Pores regularly circular; twenty-two to twenty-four on the radius of the disk. Margin of the disk thick, rounded.

Diameter of the disk 0.45, of the outer medullary shell 0.09, of the inner 0.03; pores 0.01. [dimensions in mm]

Etymology:
Latin "grandis" (-is, e) = sophisticated

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Phacodiscus grandis under the subgeneric name Phacodiscinus, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.

References:

Haeckel, E (1887). Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. 18: 1-1803. gs O


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