Haecker

Diagnosis: Shell spheroidal to ellipsoidal with regular triangular mesh openings. Radial tubes about as long as tangential bars, distally with 3 whorls of 4 to 6 equidistant, nearly perpendicular lateral branches.

Diameter: as large as 3.0 by 3.5 mm.

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

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.

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

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