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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Cryptoprora ornata Ehrenberg 1873

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> C -> Cryptoprora -> Cryptoprora ornata
Other pages this level: C. constricta, C. fundicola [nomen nudum], C. ornata, C. plutonis, C. polyptera, C. tumida [nomen nudum]

Cryptoprora ornata

Citation: Cryptoprora ornata Ehrenberg 1873
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.222
Type repository: Ehrenberg's collection, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Family (traditional): Pterocorythidae
Family (modern): Pterocorythidae

Current identification/main database link: Cryptocarpium ornatum (Ehrenberg 1873)


Original Description

[First segment campanulate (including the cephalis without stricture ?). Second segment, separated by a slight stricture, a porous membrane passing into numerous, contiguous, truncate laminae. Pores separated, in quincuncial rows. Total length 72 µ, of the first segment 37 µ. Approximately 5 pores in 23 µ.

Related to C. polypterae from Zanzibar, but a different form with appendages hidden by a porous membrane. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]

Etymology:
Latin ornatus -a -um = gorgeous

References:

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1874b). Grössere Felsproben des Polycystinen-Mergels von Barbados mit weiteren Erläuterungen. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1873: 213-263. gs


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Cryptoprora ornata compiled by the radiolaria@mikrotax project team viewed: 9-2-2026

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