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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Polyplecta enneacantha Haeckel 1887

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Polyplecta enneacantha

Citation: Polyplecta enneacantha Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.929
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM19
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Nine equal and equidistant, straight, cylindrical radial spines, lying nearly in one plane, arise from an irregular spongy central framework; six of them seem to be secondary, intercalated between three equidistant primary spines, which are united in the centre. (This species resembles in the nine-radial structure the remarkable Enneaphormis rotula, Pl. 57, fig. 9, and may perhaps be derived from a similar species; but it has no regular latticed shell.)

Size:
Length of the spines 0.22, diameter of the framework 0.17.

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)

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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