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

Acanthosphæra elliptica, Ehrenberg, 1872, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 285, Taf. vii. fig. 4.

Cortical shell nearly twice as long as broad, four times as broad as the ellipsoidal medullary shell. Spongy framework compact, with small meshes. Surface covered with very numerous short radial spines, about as long as the medullary shell.

Dimensions.—Length of the cortical shell 0.2, breadth 0.11; length of the medullary shell 0.04, breadth 0.03.

Habitat.—Philippine Sea, Ehrenberg, Station 206, depth 2100 fathoms.

6. Spongodruppa polyacantha, Haeckel.

Haliomma polyacanthum, J. Müller, 1858, Abhandl., p. 36, Taf. i. figs. 10, 11.

Haliomma polyacanthum, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 430.

Cortical shell one and a third times as long as broad, twice as broad as the ellipsoidal medullary shell. Spongy framework loose on the surface, with large regular meshes. Surface covered with fifteen to twenty thick, conical spines, about as long as the radius of the shell.

Dimensions.—Length of the cortical shell 0.12, of the medullary shell 0.09; diameter of the medullary shell 0.05 to 0.06.

Habitat.—Mediterranean (south coast of France); Atlantic (Canary Islands), Station 354, surface.