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 frontal ring 0.07 to 0.09, breadth 0.17 to
0.2.
_Habitat._--Fossil in Barbados.
Subgenus 2. _Tristephaniscus_, Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 445.
_Definition._--Sagittal and frontal ring of equal size and form.
4. _Tristephanium quadricorne_, n. sp. (Pl. 93, fig. 7).
Sagittal and frontal ring of equal size and form, larger than the circular
basal ring. From the four corners, in which the latter crosses the two
former, arise four strong, divergent spines, branched like a deer's antler.
Some smaller spines are scattered on the rings, and a bunch of four spines
arises on the apical pole. The four upper gates are triangular, the four
lower nearly semicircular, the latter of equal size, half as large as the
former.
_Dimensions._--Height of the frontal ring 0.13, breadth 0.14.
_Habitat._--South Atlantic, Station 342, depth 1445 fathoms.
Genus 422. _Tricyclidium_,[41] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 446.
_Definition._--#Coronida# with eight large, partly fenestrated gates; the
four upper or lateral gates larger than the four lower or basal gates.
Skeleton composed of three latticed complete rings, perpendicular to one
another.
The genus _Tricyclidium_ differs from the preceding _Tristephanium_, its
ancestral form, in the development of loose rudimentary lattice-work along
the rings, and therefore bears to it the same relation that _Plectocoronis_
does to _Eucoronis_. It may pass directly over into _Dictyospyris_.
1. _Tricyclidium dictyospyris_, n. sp. (Pl. 93, fig. 13).
Sagittal ring ovate, twice as thick as the two other larger rings, which
become very thin, thread-like at the lateral junction, and are both
slightly violin-shaped, in the middle sagittal plane constricted; the
frontal ring larger than the basal. All three rings bear small scattered
spines, which are irregularly branched, and by anastomoses of the
thread-like branches form small irregular meshes along the rings. The four
basal gates are of equal size.
_Dimensions._--Height of the frontal ring 0.11, breadth 0.15.
_Habitat._--Equatorial Atlantic, Station 347, depth 2250 fathoms.
{985}2. _Tricyclidium semantrum_, n. sp.
Sagittal ring ovate, smaller than the violin-shaped frontal ring and larger
than the elliptical basal ring. All three rings of nearly equal thickness,
armed with short irregular branches, which are partly connected, and
forming small irregular meshes along the rings. The four basal gates are of
different sizes; the two anterior (jugular) gates only half as large as the
two posterior (cardinal) gates.
_Dimensions._--Height of the frontal ring 0.12, breadth 0.18.
_Habitat._--South Atlantic, Station 348, depth 2450 fathoms.
Genus 423. _Trissocircus_,[42] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 446.
_Definition._--#Coronida# with eight large simple gates of equal size.
Skeleton composed of three simple complete rings, perpendicular to one
another.
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