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
Sagittal ring subcircular or ovate, with three edges and four sagittal
forked spines on the odd edge (two dorsal and two ventral spines). Basal
ring decagonal, with ten simple or forked spines on the ten corners.
Jugular gates tetragonal. Cardinal gates pentagonal.
_Dimensions._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.09, breadth 0.07.
_Habitat._--Tropical Atlantic, Station 351, surface.
{959}2. _Semantrum tetrastoma_, n. sp. (Pl. 92, fig. 3).
Sagittal ring semicircular, thorny, without edges. Basal ring tetragonal or
nearly cordate, with a small anterior and a large posterior bow-shaped
incision; on the lateral edges with numerous irregular thorns. Jugular
gates pear-shaped. Cardinal gates nearly kidney-shaped.
_Dimensions._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.1 to 0.14, breadth 0.07 to
0.09.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Stations 265 to 268, depth 2700 to 2900
fathoms.
3. _Semantrum tetrapylum_, n. sp.
Sagittal ring elliptical, tuberculate. Basal ring trapezoidal, also with
roundish thick rods and small irregular tubercles on the margin. Jugular
gates ovate, two-thirds as broad as the triangular cardinal gates.
_Dimensions._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.08, breadth 0.05.
_Habitat._--North Pacific, Station 253, depth 3125 fathoms.
4. _Semantrum mülleri_, Haeckel.
_Stephanolithis mülleri_, Bütschli, 1882, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zool., vol.
xxxvi pp. 499, 539, Taf. xxxii. figs. 8_a_, 8_b_, 8_c_.
Sagittal ring nearly semicircular or obliquely ovate, thorny. Basal ring
also nearly semicircular, with two slight sagittal incisions (one anterior
and one posterior), on the lateral edges with numerous small thorns.
Jugular pores (pair I of Bütschli) pear-shaped. Cardinal pores (pair II of
Bütschli) triangular. Sometimes (but not constantly) a pair of cervical
bows connects the scapular bars with the subvertical dorsal rod of the
sagittal ring.
_Dimensions._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.09, breadth 0.06.
_Habitat._--Fossil in Barbados.
5. _Semantrum sphragisma_, n. sp.
Sagittal ring circular, smooth. Basal ring also nearly circular and smooth;
its four basal gates of nearly equal size, elliptical or subcircular; the
jugular pores scarcely smaller than the cardinal pores. All rods smooth,
cylindrical, without edges and thorns.
_Dimensions._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.08, breadth 0.07.
_Habitat._--Tropical Atlantic, Station 347, depth 2250 fathoms; also fossil
in Barbados.
6. _Semantrum bütschlii_, n. sp.
Sagittal ring triangular, with vertical straight ascending dorsal rod,
horizontal straight basilar rod and obliquely ascending, slightly curved
ventral rod; all rods nearly cylindrical, with irregular {960}branched
thorns and distorted edges. Jugular pores triangular, scarcely half as
broad as the large semicircular cardinal pores.
_Dimensions._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.11, breadth 0.08.
_Habitat._--Fossil in Barbados.
7. _Semantrum signarium_, n. sp. (Pl. 92, fig. 4).
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