Pterocorys rhinoceros Haeckel 1887.jpg
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Original Description
Shell very delicate and thin-walled, with two sharp strictures. Length of the three joints = 2 :10: 3, breadth = 3 :11: 9. Cephalis obtuse, conical, with two divergent, conical horns of equal length. Thorax triangular, pyramidal; from its three edges there arise on the middle joint three conical descending wings (little larger than the horns), and from the base of each wing descend two divergent crests, forming at the sides of the pyramid three rounded lobes. Abdomen short, cylindrical, with wide, truncate mouth. Network of the whole shell very delicate, with very small and numerous, regular, circular, hexagonally-framed pores.
Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.1, c 0.03; breadth, a 0.03, b 0.11, c 0.09.
Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Pterocorys rhinoceros under the subgeneric name Pterocorythium, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.
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 year 1873-1876, Zoology. 18: 1-1803. gsReferences:
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