English: Illustration from Report on the Radiolaria collected by Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Part III. Original description follows: Plate 103. Aulacanthida. Diam. Fig. 1. Aulographis candelabrum, n. sp., × 100 p, The dark phæodium surrounding the central capsule on its oral part; a, a part of the surrounding alveolate calymma, also surrounding the central capsule; s, the veil of tangential needles covering the surface of the alveolate calymma; r, the big radial tubes, seven of which are visible, with an elegant verticil of terminal branches; f, the numerous pseudopodia r


English: Illustration from Report on the Radiolaria collected by Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Part III. Original description follows: Plate 103. Aulacanthida. Diam. Fig. 1. Aulographis candelabrum, n. sp., × 100 p, The dark phæodium surrounding the central capsule on its oral part; a, a part of the surrounding alveolate calymma, also surrounding the central capsule; s, the veil of tangential needles covering the surface of the alveolate calymma; r, the big radial tubes, seven of which are visible, with an elegant verticil of terminal branches; f, the numerous pseudopodia radiating between the branches. The central capsule exhibits the following parts:—o, Astropyle; u, parapylæ; e, outer membrane; i, inner membrane; v, vacuoles; n, nucleus; l, nucleoli. Figs. 2-9. Aulographis pandor, n. sp., × 100 Distal ends of various radial tubes of a single specimen, exhibiting the extraordinary variability of this species. Fig. 10. Aulographis furcula, n. sp., × 400 A two-branched tube. Fig. 11. Aulographis furcula, n. sp., × 400 A three-branched tube. Figs. 12, 13. Aulographis bovicornis, n. sp., × 200 Two tubes with two branches. Fig. 14. Aulographis bovicornis, n. sp., × 200 A tube with three branches. Fig. 15. Aulographis triangulum, n. sp., × 200 A single tube. Fig. 16. Aulographis taumorpha, n. sp., × 300 Two tubes, each with two branches. Fig. 17. Aulographis triglochin, n. sp., × 300 A tube with three branches. Figs. 18, 19. Aulographis hexancistra, n. sp., × 300 Distal end of two tubes (one with four, the other with five terminal branches). Fig. 20. Aulographis dentata, n. sp., × 200 Distal end of a single tube. Fig. 21. Aulographis ancorata, n. sp., × 300 Two tubes, each with four recurved branches. Fig. 22. Aulographis tetrancistra, n. sp., × 300 A single tube. Fig. 23. Aulographis stellata, n. sp., × 300 a and b, Two rudimentary or incompletely developed tubes; c, a well-developed tube of the usual form


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