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Current identification:
Original Description
Shell ovate, tuberculate, nearly as broad as long. Pores irregular, roundish, of very different sizes. Mouth constricted, half as broad as the shell, with three large, divergent, irregularly branched feet, nearly twice as long as the shell. (Similar to Tristylospyris ramosa, Pl. 52, fig. 23, but without sagittal ring and constriction.)
Size: Shell 0.07 long, 0.06 broad; feet 0.15 long.
Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Tripodiscium ramosum under the subgeneric name Tripodisculus, but did not include the subgeneric name in the species name.[comment from RadWorld database]
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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Tripodiscium ramosum compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 21-4-2021
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