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Current identification/main database link: Amphipternis clava (Ehrenberg 1873)
Original Description
[6-segmented, clavate, smooth, with cephalis small, subglobose, unarmed and entire. Second segment narrower than the first, with the three following gradually dilate, broader than long. Sixth segment urceolate-ovate. The four median segments have 2-4 transverse rows of small pores. Sixth segment with five transverse rows of pores in the anterior part, posteriorly the pores greatly increasing in size and everywhere sparse. In the observed specimen, the posterior part did not seem to be whole. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]
Length 150µm, of cephalis 15µm of last segment 75µm. 4 small pores in 23µm.
Editors' Notes
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 Foreman, H. P. (1973b). Radiolaria of Leg 10 with systematics and ranges for the families Amphipyndacidae, Artostrobiidae, and Theoperidae. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 10: 407-474. gs OReferences:
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