REPORT ON THE RADIOLARIA
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Synopsis of the Genera of Podocyrtida.
I. Subfamily Theopilida.
(Podocyrtida aperta.) Terminal mouth of the shell a simple wide opening. |
A. Three free limbs or wings on the thorax (partly also on the abdomen). | No free external appendages on the abdomen. | Three wings of the thorax solid. | Wings arising from the thorax, | 582. Pterocorys. | ||||
Three ribs enclosed in the wall of the thorax, | 583. Theopilium. | ||||||||
Wings arising free from the collar stricture, | 584. Corocalyptra. | ||||||||
Three wings of the thorax latticed. | Wings not prolonged into the cephalis, | 585. Dictyoceras. | |||||||
Wings prolonged into the cephalis, | 586. Pteropilium. | ||||||||
Free appendages on the abdomen. | Three ribs prolonged into three terminal feet. | Ribs and feet solid, | 587. Theopodium. | ||||||
Ribs and feet latticed, | 588. Pterocanium. | ||||||||
Three free wings on the thorax. Numerous terminal feet. | Wings and feet solid, | 589. Pterocodon. | |||||||
Wings and feet latticed, | 590. Dictyocodon. | ||||||||
B. Free appendages not on the thorax, only on the abdomen. | Abdomen with three ribs and three feet, | 591. Pleuropodium. | |||||||
Abdomen without lateral ribs, with three terminal feet. | Three feet solid, simple, | 592. Podocyrtis. | |||||||
Three feet solid, ramified, | 593. Thyrsocyrtis. | ||||||||
Three feet latticed, | 594. Dictyopodium. | ||||||||
II. Subfamily Theoperida.
(Podocyrtida clausa.) Terminal mouth of the shell closed by a lattice-plate. |
Three lateral wings only on the thorax, | Wings solid, | 595. Lithornithium. | ||||||
Wings latticed, | 596. Sethornithium. | ||||||||
Three lateral wings beginning from the thorax and prolonged into the abdomen, | 597. Theopera. | ||||||||
Three wings only on the abdomen. | Spell spindle-shaped, with three lateral wings on the abdomen. | No horn on the basal pole, | 598. Rhopalocanium. | ||||||
Basal pole of the shell with a horn, | 599. Rhopalatractus. | ||||||||
Shell three-sided pyramidal, with three terminal-feet on the basal corners, | 600. Lithochytris. |
Subfamily 1. Theopilida, Haeckel, Prodromus, p. 435.
Definition.—Podocyrtida with the terminal mouth of the shell open (vel Tricyrtida triradiata aperta).