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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Pterocanium barbadense Ehrenberg 1873

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Higher levels: rads_cat -> P -> Pterocanium -> Pterocanium barbadense
Other pages this level: P. auritum, P. barbadense, P. bibrachiatum, P. bicorne, P. bombus, P. brachypodium, P. charybdeum allium, P. contiguum, P. eucolpum, P. falciferum, P. gigas, P. grandiporus, P. gravidum, P. laeve, P. milium, P. monopylum, P. orcinum, P. polypylum, P. prismatium, P. procerum, P. proserpinae, P. pyramis, P. sabae, P. sphinx, P. tricolpum, P. virgineum

Pterocanium barbadense

Citation: Pterocanium barbadense Ehrenberg 1873
Taxonomic rank: species
Described on page(s) : p.254
Type repository: Ehrenberg's collection, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Family (traditional): Theoperidae
Family (modern): Lophocyrtiidae

Current identification/main database link: Pterocyrtidium barbadense


Original Description

[Smooth, three-segmented; cephalis globose, porous, with an acute lateral horn. Second segment globose, swollen, with a strong lateral spine directed backward, and surface pores small, in oblique rows. Third segment very narrow, cylindrical, anteriorly similarly porous, posteriorly membraneous, the p&sterior margin subdentate, broken. Total length without spine 78 µ, of cephalis 15 µ of second and third segments each 31 µ of frontal horn 15 µ. Maximum width of second segment 41 µ. Approx. 4 pores in 23 µ. (Translated from Latin by E.M.R. and W.R.R.)]

Etymology:
barbadensis -ense = from Barbados

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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