= Pterocanium auritum
= Pterocanium contiguum
= Pterocanium gigas
= Pterocanium grandiporus
= Pterocanium orcinum
= Pterocanium prismatium
= Pterocanium procerum
= Pterocorys sabae
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Current identification/main database link: Pterocanium Ehrenberg 1847
Original Description
Apertura testae duplex opposita. Testa articulata, stricturis duabus aut pluribus. Corporis utroque fine coarctato. Appendicibus mediis in articulo penultimo alata. Spinosis decurrentibus.
Translation: Aperture of the test double, opposite. Test segmented, with two or more strictures. Body narrowing at each end. With lateral wing-like appendages in the penultimate segment. Spines decurrent. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Etymology: From the Greek pteron = wing, and caneon = basket.
Extra details from original publication
Sub-genera described:
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1846). Uber eine halibiolithische, von Herrn R. Schomburgk entdeckte, vorherrschend aus mikroskopischen Polycystinen gebildete, Gebirgsmasse von Barbados. Bericht uber die zu Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1846: 382-385. gsReferences:
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