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.—Length of the shell (or major axis) 0.2, breadth of it (or minor axis) 0.14.

Habitat.—South Pacific, Station 295, depth 1500 fathoms.

2. Spongurus stypticus, n. sp.

Shell ellipsoidal, twice as long as broad, with thorny surface. Spongy framework everywhere of equal structure, with large meshes, ten to twenty times as broad as the bars.

Dimensions.—Length of the shell 0.3, breadth 0.15.

Habitat.—Pacific, central area, Station 274, depth 2750 fathoms.

3. Spongurus phalanga, Haeckel.

Spongurus cylindricus, Stöhr, 1880, Palæontogr., vol. xxvi. p. 119, Taf. vii. fig. 3.

Shell nearly cylindrical, five times as long as broad, with thorny surface. Spongy framework compact, everywhere of equal structure, with small meshes, scarcely broader than the bars.

Dimensions.—Length of the shell 0.24, breadth 0.05.