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Current identification/main database link: Phacodiscus Haeckel 1881
Original Description
1a. Tribus: Sethodiscida. Phaeodiscida laevia aut .aspera, sine aculeis marginalibus.
B. testa medullari duplci.
BI. testa lentiformis sine zona.
Translation: 1a. Tribe: Sethodiscida. Smooth or rough Phacodiscida, without marginal spines.
B. With double medullary shell.
BI. With the test lentiform, without equatorial zone. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek phacodiscus = lenticular disk"
Extra details from original publication
Sub-genera described:
Haeckel, E. (1882). Entwurf eines Radiolarien-Systems auf Grund von Studien der Challenger-Radiolarien [Basis for a radiolarian classification from the study of Radiolaria of the Challenger collection]. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. 15: 418-472. gsReferences:
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