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Original Description
Shell subspherical, smooth, somewhat broader than long, with slight sagittal stricture and sub-circular parietal primary ring. Basal plate with two large semicircular cardinal pores. Facial and occipital plate each with two pairs of large annular pores and an odd large subapical pore; lateral sides with very numerous small roundish pores. Apical born and caudal foot club-shaped, half as long as the shell, angular, simple; the two pectoral feet somewhat longer, nearly vertical, and at the distal end with a small incision, nearly forked.
Size: Shell 0.1 long, 0.12 broad; horn and feet 0.05 to 0.07 long.
Editors' Notes
Haeckel listed Tripospyris semantis under the subgeneric name Tripospyrantha, 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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