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Sethophormis aurelia Haeckel, 1887

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Sethophormis aurelia, n. sp. (Pl. 55, figs. 3, 4)

Cephalis large, nearly hemispherical, with irregular, delicate network of small square meshes. Collar-septum with four large meshes, separated by a cross od four bars, opposite in pairs. Thorax flatly campanulate, with delicate, subregular, hexagonal meshes, and twenty-four prominent radial ribs; four of these are primary or perradial (centrifugal prolongations of the four bars of the collar-septum); four others are interradial or secondary, alternating with the former at angles of 45°; sixteen others are adradial or tertiary, interpolated between the first and second more or less irregularly. In some specimens the disposition of the twenty- four ribs was more regular, in others more irregular, than in the specimen figured (figs. 3, 4). The central capsule (fig. 4) exhibits a flat, cap-shaped part with the nucleus (enclosed in the cephalis), and four large, pear-shaped lobes protruded through the four large collar holes (somewhat deformed in the preparation figured). The wall of the thorax exhibits at the base four larger, nearly semi-circular pores, bisected by the four primary thoracic ribs. Peristome withtwenty-four indentations (between the prominent distal ends of the twenty-four ribs), often more distinct than in the specimen figured.

Dimensions
Cephalis 0.03 long, 0.08 broad; thorax 0.1 to 0.2 long, 0.4 to 0.6 broad.

Habitat:
Central Pacific, Station 263 to 274, depth 2350 to 2925 fathoms.

Haeckel 1887


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