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Original Description
Shell smooth, with sharp collar stricture. Relative length of the two joints = 5: 4, breadth = 7: 6. Cephalis large, subspherical, with numerous regular circular pores, twice as broad as the bars. Thorax with three stout, straight, widely divergent ribs, prolonged into three straight pointed feet of the same length. Between every two ribs, in the centre of the collar stricture, a single large triangular mesh, and beyond this three to six rows of smaller irregular meshes.
Size: Cephalis 0.05 long, 0.07 broad; thorax 0.04 long, 0.06 broad.
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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Sethopilium orthopus compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 4-3-2021
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