Radiolaria (Challenger) Plate 023

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Description: English: Illustration from Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Part III. Original description follows: Plate 23. Cubosphærida. Diam. Fig. 1. Hexadendron bipinnatum, n. sp.,: ×: 400. Fig. 2. Hexacromyum octahedrum, n. sp.,: ×: 400. Fig. 3. Hexancistra mirabilis, n. sp. (= Hexapitys mirabilis),: ×: 400. The spherical central capsule encloses the concentric spherical inner shell (which is filled up by the nucleus), and is surrounded by the octahedral outer shell. The latter is enveloped by the octahedral calymma, which is radially striated and contains numerous xanthellæ. Fig. 4. Hexacaryum arborescens, n. sp.,: ×: 400. Fig. 5. Hexacontium clavigerum, n. sp.,: ×: 300. Date: 1887. Source: https://archive.org/details/reportonradiolar00haecrich. Author: Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919); engravings by Adolf Giltsch (1852-1911).