Haliomma erinaceum, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 427, Taf. xxiii. figs. 3, 4.
Cortical shell thin walled, seven to eight times as broad as the medullary shell, both with irregular, polygonal pores, two to ten times as broad as the bars, outer pores much larger than the inner. Radial spines very numerous, bristle-shaped, as long as the diameter of the medullary shell, the majority or all being either curved or obliquely depressed, the greater part neither straight nor radial.
Dimensions.—Diameter of the outer shell 0.2, inner 0.025 to 0.03; outer pores 0.005 to 0.03, inner 0.008 to 0.016, bars 0.002 to 0.004; length of the spines 0.03.
Habitat.—Cosmopolitan; Mediterranean, Atlantic, Pacific, surface.
22. Haliomma tenellum, Haeckel.
Haliomma tenellum, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 428.
Haliomma spinuloso affine, J. Müller, 1858, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 40, Taf. iv. fig. 7.
Cortical shell thin walled, three times as broad as the medullary shell, with irregular, roundish pores, and very thin bars. Pores of the inner shell regular, circular. Radial spines very numerous, bristle-shaped, straight, as long as the radius of the outer shell.
Dimensions.—Diameter of the outer shell 0.15, inner 0.05; outer pores 0.008 to 0.016, inner 0.005; length of the spines 0.07.
Habitat.—Mediterranean (Nice); Atlantic, Stations 349 to 354, surface.