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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Stylosphaera erato Haeckel 1887

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Stylosphaera erato

Citation: Stylosphaera erato Haeckel 1887
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.137
Type age (chronostrat): [presumably Quaternary though some forms reported from this station appear to be Tertiary]
Type locality: LM191
Type repository: No information given

Current identification:


Original Description

Radial proportion of the two shells = 3:1. Cortical shell thick walled, thorny, with irregular, roundish pores, two to five times as broad as the bars; fourteen to eighteen on the half equator. Polar spines three-sided pyramidal, about as long as the axis of the outer sphere, one-fourth as broad as its radius. (Similar to Xiphosphœra vesta, Pl. 14, fig. 6.)

Size:
Diameter of the outer shell 0.15, pores 0.008 to 0.015, bars 0.003; inner shell 0.05; polar spines 0.12 long, 0.02 broad.

Editors' Notes
There was no illustration of this species in Haeckel (1887)
Haeckel listed Stylosphaera erato under the subgeneric name Stylosphaeromma, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.[comment from RadWorld database]

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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