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. Dicranastrum wyvillei, n. sp. (Pl. [47], fig. 3).

Tricranastrum wyvillei, Haeckel, 1879, Natürl. Schöpfungsgesch., p. 705, Taf. xvi. fig. 5.

Arms trifid, one and a half times as long as broad; each arm with three blunt terminal branches of equal size. The simple basal part of each arm twice as long as the trifid distal part. (The central capsule depicted in fig. 3, Pl. [47], has the same form as the skeleton, and is only a little smaller.)

Dimensions.—Radius of the arm 0.4, basal breadth 0.12, greatest breadth (in the distal part) 0.24.

Habitat.—Pacific, central area, Station 271, surface.

6. Dicranastrum tricuspis, n. sp.

Arms trifid, twice as long as broad; each arm with three pointed terminal branches, ending in strong conical spines, the middle branch somewhat larger than the other two. The simple basal part of each arm three times as long as the trifid distal part.

Dimensions.—Radius of the arm 0.3, basal breadth 0.06, greatest breadth (in their distal part) 0.15.

Habitat.—North Pacific, Station 244, surface.

7. Dicranastrum trifarium, n. sp.