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Current identification:
Original Description
Shell spiny, pear-shaped, with sharp collar stricture. Length of the two joints = 3: 15, breadth = 4: 18. Cephalis subspherical, with a large, cylindro-conical horn, about as long as the whole shell. Thorax inflate, subspherical, truncate, with large, irregular, roundish pores, four to six times as large as those of the cephalis. Mouth constricted, flat, one-third as broad as the thorax.
Cephalis 0.03 long, 0.04 broad; thorax 0.15 long, 0.18 broad.
Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
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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