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

5. Plegmosphæra leptodictyon, n. sp.

Radius of the spongy shell-cavity six times as great as the thickness of the spongy wall. Inside of the wall closed by a smooth lattice-plate, outside rough spongy.

Dimensions.—Diameter of the shell 0.44, of its cavity 0.36.

Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 266, surface.

Subgenus 3. Plegmosphæromma, Haeckel.

Definition.—Inside of the spongy shell-wall rough spongy, without lattice-plate, outside closed by a smooth lattice-plate.

6. Plegmosphæra exodictyon, n. sp. (Pl. [18], fig. 8).

Radius of the spongy shell-cavity only one-fourth as great as the thickness of the spongy shell-wall. Outside of the wall closed by a smooth lattice-plate, inside rough, spongy.

Dimensions.—Diameter of the shell 0.4, of its cavity 0.08.

Habitat.—South Atlantic, Station 325, surface.