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
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.09 long, 0.11 broad; horn and feet 0.4 to 0.6 long.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Stations 270 to 274, depth 2350 to 2925
fathoms.
3. _Dorcadospyris lunulata_, n. sp.
Shell subspherical spinulate, nearly of the same shape as in the preceding
species, but with a short conical horn (scarcely as long as the shell); the
feet are much mere slender, crescentic, and bear twenty to thirty smaller
smooth conical teeth (shorter than the shell). The distal ends of the feet
are crossed.
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.08 long, 0.09 broad; horn 0.06 long, feet 0.03 to
0.06 long.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Station 266, depth 2750 fathoms.
4. _Dorcadospyris decussata_, n. sp. (Pl. 85, fig. 7).
Shell subspherical, smooth, very similar to that of the two preceding
species. Horn small conical, about as long as the shell. Feet more than
semicircular, more strongly curved than in any other species, each with
four to eight small conical teeth, shorter than the shell; distal ends
crossed. (In this species also, besides the normal symmetrical form, there
often occurs an asymmetrical form of the two feet; one of these frequent
anomalies is shown in fig. 7.)
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.06 long, 0.08 broad; horn 0.05, feet 0.2 to 0.5
long.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Stations 265 to 268, depth 2700 to 2900
fathoms.
5. _Dorcadospyris dinoceras_, n. sp. (Pl. 85, fig. 4).
Shell subspherical, tuberculate, with subregular circular pores. Basal
plate with four larger central and eight to twelve smaller peripheral
pores. Horn about as long as the shell, in the basal half prismatic,
smooth, in the distal half ovate or strobiliform, spiny. Feet very large
and strongly curved, together nearly heart-shaped, four to six times as
long as the shell. Each foot bears on its outer convex side a series of
fifteen to twenty or more strong conical teeth, which are again spinulate,
perpendicular to the foot, and longer than the shell.
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.08 long, 0.09 broad; horn 0.07 long, feet 0.3 to 0.5
long.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Station 268, depth 2900 fathoms.
{1042}Genus 449. _Gamospyris_,[67] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 441.
_Definition._--#Zygospyrida# with two simple lateral feet, forming a ring
by union.
The genus _Gamospyris_ and the similar _Stephanospyris_ differ from all
other #Spyroidea# in the possession of a large basal ring, placed in the
frontal plane of the shell. This ring has been produced by concrescence of
the distal ends of the two large curved lateral feet of _Dipospyris_.
1. _Gamospyris circulus_, n. sp. (Pl. 83, fig. 19).
Shell subspherical, tuberculate, with subregular circular pores. Basal
plate with four larger collar pores. Apical horn pyramidal, about as long
as the shell. The connected feet form together a circular or nearly
circular smooth ring, the diameter of which is three to four times as great
as that of the shell.
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.08 long, 0.09 broad; diameter of the arm-ring 0.25
to 0.33.
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