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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Staurodoras spongosphaera Haeckel 1887

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Other pages this level: S. eocenica, S. muelleri, S. spongosphaera

Staurodoras spongosphaera

Citation: Staurodoras spongosphaera Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.168
Type repository: No information given
Family (traditional): Actinommidae
Family (modern): Actinommidae

Current identification:


Original Description

Four crossed spines, two to three times as long as the diameter of the spongy sphere, three-sided prismatic, with three dentated and spirally contorted edges. (Form of Spongosphœra streptacantha, but without medullary shell and with four equal spines, crossed regularly at right angles.)

Diameter of the sphere 0.25; length of the spines 0.4 to 0.7. [dimensions in mm]

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)

References:

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 years 1873-1876. 18: 1-1803. gs O


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