Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) / Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII

by Ernst Haeckel

Dimensions.—Diameter of the central capsule 0.06 to 0.08, length of the spicula 0.05 to 0.1.

Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 271, surface.

3. Rhaphidozoum acuferum, Haeckel.

Rhaphidozoum acuferum, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 529, Taf. xxxii. figs. 9-11.

Sphærozoum acuferum, J. Müller, 1858, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 54, Taf. viii. fig. 3.

Thalassicolla acufera, J. Müller, 1855, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 237.

Spicula of two different kinds, simple needles and quadriradiate; both strong, thorny, covered with small spinules. Simple needles mostly curved, C-shaped. Four shanks of the quadriradiate spicula now straight, now curved, commonly of very different size. (Often one single quadriradiate spiculum is distinguished by its extraordinary size.) For the detailed description of this species compare my Monograph (loc. cit.).

Dimensions.—Diameter of the central capsules 0.05 to 0.35, length of the simple needles 0.05 to 0.25, shanks of the quadriradiate spicula 0.05 to 0.15.

Habitat.—Mediterranean, Messina, Naples, Nice.

4. Rhaphidozoum arachnoides, n. sp.