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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Prunocarpus sparganium Haeckel 1887

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Prunocarpus sparganium

Citation: Prunocarpus sparganium 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 very small, numerous, regular, circular pores, of the same size as the bars; forty to fifty on the half equator. Between them over the entire surface occur small conical spines. Irregularly scattered over the surface ten to twenty larger conical spines, three to six times as thick at the base as one pore, one-fourth to one-half as long as the main axis. Both medullary shells ellipsoidal.

Major axis of the cortical shell 0.16, of the outer medullary shell 0.11, of the inner 0.06; equatorial axis of the first shell 0.12, of the second 0.08, of the third 0.04; pores and bars on an average 0.005; length of the spines 0.05 to 0.1, basal breadth 0.02 to 0.03. [dimensions in mm]

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