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Original Description
Shell ovate, with two slight strictures. Length of the three joints = 2: 4: 3, breadth = 1: 5: 4. Cephalis ovate, with a pyramidal horn of twice the length. From the middle part of the thorax arise three broad, triangular, latticed wings of about the same length, the distal end of each of which is curved downwards. Abdomen inversely conical. Pores regular, circular. (Similar to Lithornithium fringilla, Pl. 67, fig. 2, but with much larger wings, which in the greater part are fenestrated.)
Size: Length of the three joints, a 0.04, b 0.08, c 0.06; breadth, a 0.02, b 0.1, c 0.08.
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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Sethornithium dictyopterum compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 4-3-2021
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