Plate 52
Suborder: Phaeodaria
Family: Challengeriidae
Figure, Species, Station depth (m), Type of Micrograph, Magnification
1. Protocystis xiphodon (Haeckel), PB: 1268, SEM, x 220.
2. Protocystis xiphodon (Haeckel), PB: 1268, LM, x 210.
3. Protocystis xiphodon (Haeckel), View from inside of a broken specimen showing amphorae and their necks securing themselves to inside surface membrane, PB: 1268, SEM, x 4700.
4. Protocystis tritonis (Haeckel), E: 389, LM, x 210.
5. Protocystis trionis (Haeckel), E: 389, LM, x 210.
6. Protocystis naresi (Murray), Lateral view, E: 988, SEM, x 47.
7. Protocystis naresi (Murray), Microstructure showing amphorae which are slightly more elongated than those in other 16 species of Challengeriidae, E: 988, SEM, x 3600.
8. Protocystis naresi (Murray), Oblique oral view, E: 988, SEM, x 75.
9. Entocannula infundibulum Haeckel, PB: 1268, LM, x 160.
10. Entocannula infundibulum Haeckel, PB: 3769, SEM, x 110.
11. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Microstructure showing delicate amphorae which have many small pores connected with inside of the shell, PB: 1268, SEM, x 4000.
12. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Shell surface is alveolate and very different from all other Challengeriidae studied here; dorsal view, PB: 1268, SEM, x 900.
13. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Lateral view, PB: 1268, LM, x 210.
14. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Oblique ventral view, PB: 389, LM, x 210.
15. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Ventral view, PB: 667, LM, x 210.
16. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Ventral view, E: 988, SEM, x 385. |