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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Prunocarpus datura Haeckel 1887

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Prunocarpus datura

Citation: Prunocarpus datura Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.316
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): not-known

Current identification:


Original Description

Cortical shell thick walled, with regular, circular pores, twice as broad as the bars; ten to twelve on the half equator. Between every three meshes arises a short conical spine, twice to three times as long as one pore. Both medullary shells spherical. (Differs mainly from Ellipsidium datura and from Druppocarpus castanea in the double medullary shell. The outer network resembles Haliomma castanea, figured 1862 in my Monograph, Taf. xxiv. fig. 4.)

Major axis of the ellipsoid 0.16, minor 0.l2; pores 0.12, bars 0.006; length of the radial spines 0.03; diameter of the medullary shells 0.06 and 0.04. [dimensions in mm]

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Prunocarpus datura under the subgeneric name Prunocarpetta, 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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