Haeckel

Diagnosis: Shell spheroidal with regular triangular mesh openings. Radial tubes slender, straight, distally tapered, about as long as tangential bars, each with 6-12 whorls of 3 or 4 curved simple lateral spines without spathillae.
Haecker (1908) differentiated a larger Antarctic form with few whorls of lateral spines (Aulosphaera verticillata 2) that has been reported also by Peters (1929) and Tibbs (1969) from Antarctic localities.

Diameter: 1.5-2.5 mm.

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

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.

Peters N. 1929. Die tripyleen Radiolarien der Weddell-See. Internat. Rev. Ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr., 21:383-401.

Tibbs J.F. 1969. The Phaeodaria (Protozoa: Radiolaria) of the Antarctic Ocean. Ph. D. Diss., Univ. Southern California, pp. 1-519.

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