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._--Length of the two larger spines 0.15, of the two smaller
0.12.
_Habitat._--Mediterranean (Portofino near Genoa), surface.
2. _Plagiocarpa procyrtella_, n. sp.
Spines of form and arrangement similar to those of the preceding species,
but longer and more branched, six to eight times as long as the shorter
common middle rod. The two characteristic {915}opposed branches (the
ascending branch of the basal rod and the descending branch of the apical
spine), which in the preceding species nearly compose a sagittal ring, are
here absent.
_Dimensions._--Length of the two larger 0.27, of the two smaller 0.21.
_Habitat._--North Atlantic, Iceland (Steenstrup), surface.
Subfamily 3. HEXAPLAGIDA, Haeckel.
_Definition._--#Plagonida# with six radial spines.
Genus 390. _Hexaplagia_,[9] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 424.
_Definition._--#Plagonida# with six radial spines, arising from one common
central point.
The genus _Hexaplagia_ differs from the preceding genera of Plagonida in
the possession of six radial spines, diverging from one common central
point. Commonly, these six spines seem to lie opposite in pairs in three
different meridian planes, and in this case _Hexaplagia_ may be regarded as
a _Plagiacantha_, the three radial spines of which are prolonged over the
basal pole of the central capsule. But in other species the six spines seem
to lie in different planes. Further observations are required.
1. _Hexaplagia arctica_, n. sp.
Spines opposite in pairs in three diameters, crossed in the common centre,
straight, three-sided prismatic, with dentate edges. The three pairs are
equal, but the upper spine of each pair only half as long as the lower
spine.
_Dimensions._--Length of the upper spine 0.13, of the lower 0.27.
_Habitat._--Arctic Ocean (Greenland), in the stomach of a Medusa (Olrik).
2. _Hexaplagia antarctica_, n. sp.
Spines opposite in pairs in three diameters, crossed in the common centre,
slightly curved, three-sided prismatic, with verticillate branches; the
three pairs are equal, but the lower spine of each pair bears three to four
verticils, each of three branches, and is two to three times as long as the
upper spine, which bears two verticils only.
_Dimensions._--Length of the upper spine 0.12, of the lower 0.3.
_Habitat._--Antarctic Ocean, Station 157, depth 1950 fathoms.
{916}3. _Hexaplagia collaris_, n. sp.
Spines in opposite pairs in three diameters, crossed in the common centre,
straight, cylindrical, pinnate, with three to four pairs of opposite
lateral branches or regular pinnulæ. All six spines are equidistant, of
equal size and similar form, and lie with their branches nearly in one
horizontal plane. Therefore they are similar to the six radial rods in the
collar septum of many #Spyroidea# and #Cyrtoidea# (_e.g._, _Calpophæna_,
Pl. 53, fig. 18).
_Dimensions._--Length of all six spines 0.18, of their basal pinnulæ 0.04.
_Habitat._--East of New Zealand, Station 169, surface.
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