Late Neogene Lophophaenidae (Nassellaria, Radiolaria) from the eastern equatorial Pacific
Author
Trubovitz, Sarah
Author
Renaudie, Johan
Author
Lazarus, David
Author
Noble, Paula
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-04
5160
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5160.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5160.1.1
11755334
A9179C79-EE43-44E4-8723-919505500049
Ceratocyrtis robustus
Bjørklund, 1976
Ceratocyrtis robustus
n. sp.
,
Bjørklund, 1976
, pl. 17, figs. 6–10.
non
Ceratocyrtis robustus
Bjørklund,
Nishimura, 1990
, pl. 20, fig. 6.
Ceratocyrtis robustus
Bjørklund, Renaudie, 2014
, pl. 18, figs. 3A–B.
non
Ceratocyrtis robustus
Bjørklund,
Chen
et al.,
2017
, pl. 73, figs. 20–22.
Remarks.
None of the type specimens illustrated by Bjørklund (1976) clearly show the outer wall of the thorax, making it difficult to visualize the nature of the pores on that part of the shell, which are described by the author as “rounded to irregularly rounded pores of variable size, 5–25 µm.” Both
Nishimura (1990)
and
Chen
et al.
(2017)
depict specimens with pores of fairly consistent size; small pores are visible on the specimen in
Nishimura (1990)
and large pores on both specimens in
Chen
et al.
(2017)
. Thus, these specimens are excluded from our synonymy, and further illustration of the
type
material would likely aid in clarifying this species concept.