Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index: 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, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index: Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII
Haeckel, Ernst
Radiolaria
Shell nut-shaped, spiny, with irregular roundish pores. Basal plate with
three pairs of pores. Apical horn cylindrical, spinulate, twice to three
times as long as the shell. Feet as long as the horn, S-shaped, widely
divergent, irregularly branched, with widely distant pointed branches.
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.08 long, 0.12 broad; horn and feet 0.2 to 0.3 long.
_Habitat._--North Atlantic, Station 353, depth 2965 fathoms.
7. _Dendrospyris arborescens_, n. sp. (Pl. 85, fig. 9).
Shell nut-shaped, tuberculate, with subregular circular pores. Basal plate
with four central larger and ten to twelve peripheral smaller pores. Apical
horn cylindrical, twice as long as the shell, in the distal half spinulate
or tuberculate. Feet about three times as long as the shell, cylindrical,
nearly vertical, in the distal half irregularly branched, with dense
bunches of aggregated blunt branches.
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.07 long, 0.09 broad; horn and feet 0.12 to 0.18
long.
_Habitat._--Equatorial Atlantic, Station 347, depth 2250 fathoms.
Genus 448. _Dorcadospyris_,[66] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 441.
_Definition._--#Zygospyrida# with two free lateral feet armed with a series
of secondary spines. Apex with a horn.
The genus _Dorcadospyris_ and the closely allied _Stephanospyris_ differ
from the other Dipospyrida in the development of a series of secondary
spines on the convex outer margin of the two large curved lateral feet,
which therefore appear semipinnate. In some species this peculiar armature
attains an extraordinary size, whilst the shell itself is very small, as in
_Dorcadospyris dinoceras_ (Pl. 85, fig. 4).
1. _Dorcadospyris dentata_, n. sp. (Pl. 85, fig. 6).
Shell subspherical, tuberculate with small regular circular pores. Basal
plate with four larger pores. Apical horn three to four times as long as
the shell, slender conical, smooth. Feet more or less convexly curved
towards one another; the distal ends not crossed. In the convex edge of
each arm a series of five to ten smooth conical teeth, not longer than the
shell. This common species is very variable and often asymmetrical; the
figured specimen is an asymmetrical one, in which the two arms exhibit
different curves; in the normal form both arms have the same curve, now
more, now less convex.
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.06 long, 0.08 broad; horn 0.2, feet 0.03 long.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Stations 267 to 274, depth 2350 to 2925
fathoms.
{1041}2. _Dorcadospyris antilope_, n. sp. (Pl. 85, fig. 5).
Shell subspherical, tuberculate, with small regular circular pores. Basal
plate with four larger pores. Apical horn four to six times as long as the
shell, straight, cylindrical, smooth. Feet of the same length, crescentic
or nearly semicircular, with crossed distal ends. On the convex edge of
each foot a series of twelve to fifteen smooth conical teeth, partly longer
than the shell. (Very variable in size and curvature of the feet, and
number of their teeth.)
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