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._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.08, breadth 0.06.
_Habitat._--Central Pacific, Station 271, depth 2425 fathoms.
3. _Semantiscus hexapylus_, n. sp. (Pl. 92, fig. 17).
Sagittal ring ovate, thorny, with a small apical horn. Basal ring with six
roundish or nearly triangular gates; the two jugular pores are smaller than
the two cardinal and larger than the two cervical pores. The separating
bars between these six pores are prolonged into six straight, thorny widely
divergent feet; three larger feet (the caudal and the two pectoral) with a
pair of apophyses, three smaller between them simple (the sternal and the
two tergal feet).
_Dimensions._--Height of the sagittal ring 0.13, breadth 0.09.
_Habitat._--Western Tropical Pacific, Station 225, depth 4475 fathoms.
Family #L. CORONIDA#, Haeckel.
_Triostephida_, Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 445.
_Definition._--STEPHOIDEA with two crossed vertical rings, perpendicular
one to the other (the primary sagittal and the secondary frontal ring).
Usually their common base bears a horizontal basal ring, but a mitral ring
(or a horizontal ring at the apex) is never developed.
The family #Coronida# comprises those #Stephoidea# in which the primary
sagittal ring (of the Stephanida and Semantida) becomes crossed by a second
vertical ring, the lateral or frontal ring. Between these two vertical
meridian rings, perpendicular to one another, four large apertures remain
constantly open, the "lateral" gates. But besides these four constant
openings, usually (excepting only in the Zygostephanida) other gates are
developed on the common base of the two crossed rings, produced by a third,
horizontal, basal ring. These basal gates are the same which we have found
already in the Semantida.
The distinction of the Coronida from the other #Stephoidea# is always easy.
In the Stephanida and Semantida, the frontal ring, or the second meridian
ring, which we find in all Coronida, is never developed. On the other hand
these latter never exhibit the typical "mitral ring," or the second, upper,
horizontal ring, which distinguishes the Tympanida.
We distinguish here, among the Coronida, four different subfamilies, which
perhaps afterwards may be better separated as families. Of these four
groups the Zygostephanida and Acanthodesmida exhibit the nearest
relationship to the Stephanida, whilst the Eucoronida and Trissocyclida
possess a closer affinity with the Semantida.
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