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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Prunocarpus artocarpium Haeckel 1887

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Prunocarpus artocarpium

Citation: Prunocarpus artocarpium Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.316
Type specimens: pl.39, fig.5
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Coccodiscidae
Family (modern): Coccodiscidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Cortical shell thin walled, with irregular, roundish pores of very different sizes, twice to nine times as broad as the thin bars; ten to fifteen on the half equator. Between them arise numerous bristle-shaped, radial spines, with conical base, on an average one-fourth to two-thirds as long as the equatorial axis. The outer medullary shell, with irregular, roundish pores, presents a transverse ellipsoid, its main axis lying in the equatorial axis of the cortical shell, whilst its equatorial axis corresponds to the main axis of the latter. Inner medullary shell very small, spherical, with very small pores.

Major axis of the cortical shell 0.14, of the outer medullary shell 0.05; minor axis of the former 0.1, of the latter 0.035; diameter of the inner medullary shell 0.014; pores of the cortical shell 0.005 to 0.02, bars 0.002; length of the radial spines 0.02 to 0.06. [dimensions in mm]

Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Prunocarpus artocarpium under the subgeneric name Prunocarpilla, 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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