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Original Description
Shell subovate, smooth, with slight collar stricture. Length of the two joints = 3: 9, breadth = 4: 8. Cephalis large, hemispherical, free, with small circular pores. Thorax inflated, ovate, with nine strong curved ribs, which are connected by five transverse circular rings at equal distances. Forty-five rounded, squarish, large meshes between them, in five transverse and nine longitudinal rows. Mouth constricted, smooth, half as broad as the thorax.
Size: Cephalis 0.03 long, 0.04 broad; thorax 0.09 long, 0.08 broad.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Sethamphora enneapleura under the subgeneric name Dictyoprona, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.[comment from RadWorld database]
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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Sethamphora enneapleura compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 19-4-2021
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