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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Staurostylus latinus Haeckel 1887

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Staurostylus latinus

Citation: Staurostylus latinus Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.157
Type age (chronostrat): Quaternary
Type locality: LM38
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Shell thin walled, smooth, with regular, circular, double-edged pores, three times as broad as the bars; twelve to fourteen on the quadrant. Spines conical, twice as broad at the base as one mesh; two opposite larger spines as long as the radius of the shell, two smaller only one-third as long.

Size:
Diameter of the shell 0.24, pores 0.012, bars 0.004; length of the major spines 0.12, minor 0.04.

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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