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| Trisulcus boldyrae Petrushevskaya 1971 = Botryopera boldyrae | ||||
| Trisulcus halipleumon Renaudie & Lazarus 2013 = Trisulcus halipleumon | ||||
| Trisulcus pinguiculus Renaudie & Lazarus 2012 = Trisulcus pinguiculus | ||||
| Trisulcus testudus Petrushevskaya 1971 = Trisulcus testudus | ||||
| Trisulcus triacanthus Popofsky 1913 = Trisulcus triacanthus |
Current identification/main database link: Trisulcus Popofsky 1913
Original Description
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Haeckel (1887a, p.1223) described, under the name of Amphiplecta, some forms with an inner spicule constructed by three spines that are not freely prolonged above the surface of the shell. Amphiplecta representatives should have also a cephalis distally open, that is always bearing a crown of spines. We will see later (in the discussion of Acanthocorys variabilis n. sp., Textfig. 71-81 and Lithopilium macroceras n. sp., Textfig. 93, 94), that this particularity of the shell is only a transitional stage during the development towards later stages in which the cephalis is closed. It results, thus, that the genus Amphiplecta cannot be distinguished only by the structure of the inner spicule and others. The same observation cannot be applied to the three species of Amphiplecta described by Haeckel, but not yet observed and described. This is why this genus must be kept for the moment.
A small form, that must be placed in the new genus Trisulcus, has also an inner spicule, but a cephalis upwardly closed. As long as the apical opening will be characteristic for the genus Amphiplecta, the new genus will be valid. But if it happens, as for the species I have already mentioned, that the apical opening is closing during the process of posterior development in all Amphiplecta species, and that the only characteristic remaining for this genus is an inner spicule without external ribs, or thoracic spines externally prolonged, then the genus Trisulcus will be superfluous, and Trisulcus triacanthus will have to be placed in the genus Amphiplecta.
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