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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Spongosphaera pachystyla Ehrenberg 1873

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> S -> Spongosphaera -> Spongosphaera pachystyla
Other pages this level: S. helioides, S. pachystyla, S. polyacantha, S. quadricuspis, S. rhabdostyla, S. streptacantha

Spongosphaera pachystyla

Citation: Spongosphaera pachystyla Ehrenberg 1873
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.256
Type repository: Ehrenberg's collection, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Family (traditional): Spongodiscidae
Family (modern): Sponguridae

Current identification/main database link: Spongatractus pachystylus (Ehrenberg 1873)


Original Description

[Sphere oblong-globose, spongy, with thorny surface, with an obscure median nucleus, and irregular pores not in rows; with two opposite spines strongly thickened and slightly sulcate, acute terminally. Length without spines 185 µ, of a larger spine 135 µ. Width 125 µ. Diameter of nucleus 41 µ. Width of a spine 41 µ. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]

References:

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1874b). Grössere Felsproben des Polycystinen-Mergels von Barbados mit weiteren Erläuterungen. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1873: 213-263. gs


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