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Diagnosis: Radial tubes slender, cylindrical to slightly tapered distally, straight. Terminal branches 4 to 6 (usually 4) 8 to 10 times as long as the tube is broad, slightly curved and widely divergent, with a terminal spathilla of 4 crossed recurved teeth.

Length of tubes: 0.5-0.7 mm.

Kingdom Protoctista
Phylum Actinopoda
Subphylum Sarcodina
Class Phaeodaria
Order Phaeocystina
Family Aulacanthidae
Genus Aulographis
Species Aulographis tetrancistra

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species

Reshetnjak V.V. 1966. Glubokovodnie radilaoyarii Phaeodaria cevero-zapadnoi chasti Tichogo Okeana. Fauna SSSR, Akad. Nauk SSSR, Zool. Inst., Nauka, Moskva: pp. 1-208.

Tibbs J.F. 1976. The Aulacanthidae (Radiolaria: Phaeodaria) of the Antarctic seas. Biol. Ant. Seas 5, Ant. Res. Ser. 2, Amer. Geophys. Union, pp. 21-65.

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