Haeckel

Diagnosis: Shell spheroidal with fairly regular triangular mesh openings. Radial tubes about 2 times as long as tangential bars, distal third very thin and with 8 to 12 whorls of 4 lateral branches, forked near the base to appear as 8 branches.

Diameter: 1.5-2.0 mm in equatorial samples; 2.5-3.0 mm in Antarctic samples.

Kingdom Protoctista
Phylum Actinopoda
Subphylum Sarcodina
Class Phaeodaria
Order Phaeosphaeria
Family Aulosphaeridae
Genus Aulosphaera
Species Aulosphaera elegantissima

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

Haecker V. 1908. Tiefsee-Radiolarien. Wiss. Erg. Deutsch. Tiefsee-Exp. Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899, 14, T. 1:1-476; T. 2:477-706.

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