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 hemispherical, spiny, with irregular polygonal pores. Basal plate
with six meshes (?). Between the smaller spines of the surface arise six
larger conical divergent horns. Three feet also conical, divergent, about
twice as long as the shell and the horns.
_Dimensions._--Shell 0.05 long, 0.07 broad; horns 0.05 long, feet 0.1 long.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Station 274, depth 2750 fathoms.
{1157}Genus 510. _Archibursa_,[127] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 429.
_Definition._--#Archiperida# (vel Monocyrtida triradiata clausa) without
internal columella and without apical horn.
The genus _Archibursa_ has probably arisen from _Peridium_ by loss of the
apical horn, and is the only genus of Archiperida which bears no horn. The
three basal feet are well-developed. It differs from the similar
_Tristylospyris_ by the absence of the sagittal ring and the corresponding
longitudinal constriction.
1. _Archibursa tripodiscus_, n. sp. (Pl. 98, fig. 6).
Shell subspherical, smooth, with irregular roundish pores. Basal plate with
three large triangular pores of equal size (fig. 6). Three feet widely
divergent, straight, three-sided prismatic, about as long as the diameter
of the shell.
_Dimensions._--Diameter of the shell 0.07, length of the feet 0.09.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Station 272, depth 2600 fathoms.
Family LX. #PHÆNOCALPIDA#, n. fam.
_Archiphormida_ et _Archiphænida_, Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, pp. 428,
429.
_Definition._--#Monocyrtida# multiradiata. (#Cyrtoidea# with a simple, not
jointed shell, resembling a simple cephalis, with numerous radial apophyses
(four to nine or more).
The family #Phænocalpida#, composed of the Archiphormida and Archiphænida
of my Prodromus, comprises those #Cyrtoidea# in which the lattice-shell is
quite without transverse constriction, but bears numerous radial apophyses.
The two subfamilies differ in the shape of the basal mouth, which in the
Archiphormida is a simple wide opening, but is closed in the Archiphænida
by a lattice-plate.
Several Phænocalpida were formerly described by Ehrenberg, viz.,
_Halicalyptra virginica_ (in 1844) and _Litharachnium arachnodiscus_ (in
1872, called by him _Carpocanium_, though it is quite different from this
genus, and closely allied to my _Litharachnium tentorium_, figured in
1862). These forms belong to the Archiphormida (with open mouth). Several
fossil Archiphænida (with closed mouth) were figured by Ehrenberg, in 1875,
as belonging to _Petalospyris_ (_ocellata_, _carinata_, _flabellum_),
though the absence of the sagittal ring and the corresponding longitudinal
constriction demonstrates their character as _Phænocalpis_.
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