Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia): Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIIIHaeckel, Ernst
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Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia): Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII
Haeckel, Ernst
Radiolaria
45. _Secondary or Transverse Axes._--In contrast to the vertical main axis
all the other constant axes differentiated in the body may be called
"secondary axes," or "transverse axes," since they cross the former at
definite points. All ground-forms whose vertical axis is crossed by a fixed
number of such axes at definite angles may be called "Stauraxonia." They
are divided into two groups, double pyramids and single pyramids; in the
former the two poles of the main axis (or the two halves of the body
separated by the equatorial plane) are similar (Stauraxonia homopola), in
the latter dissimilar (Stauraxonia heteropola). If all the secondary axes
be equal, the stauraxon ground-form is regularly radial. If some of them be
unequal they are arranged in certain relations towards two primary
transverse axes, perpendicular to each other, to which all the other
secondary axes are subsidiary; the ground-forms are then either amphithect
or bilateral. The two primary transverse axes, which may also be designated
"ideal transverse axes" (euthyni), divide the vertical main axis in its
centre; one of them is the sagittal, the other the frontal. These three
dimensive axes give the factors which accurately determine the ground-form
and the dimensions in most Radiolaria; the vertical main axis determines
the length (principal axis); one horizontal transverse axis determines the
thickness (sagittal axis), and the other the breadth (frontal axis). Those
ground-forms in which the transverse axes are isopolar are termed
"amphithect," and those in which the one (frontal or lateral) is isopolar
and the other (sagittal or dorso-ventral) is allopolar, are termed
"bilateral," or better "zeugitic."
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