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English: Illustration from Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Part III. Original description follows:
Plate 1. Thalassicollida. |
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Fig. 1. Actissa princeps, n. sp., |
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The entire living Spumellarium. c, The spherical central capsule containing finely granulated protoplasm, which is radially striated in the cortical zone; v, spherical vacuoles enclosed by the protoplasm; n, the spherical nucleus in the centre; l, the concentric nucleolus; f, the radial pseudopodia which pierce the calymma or the (yellowish) jelly-envelope of the central capsule and arise from the granular sarcomatrix. |
Fig. 1a. Half of the central capsule of another specimen, in which the original central nucleus is cleft into numerous small nuclei, |
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Fig. 1b. Half of the central capsule of another specimen, filled up by flagellate spores, |
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Fig. 1c. Eight isolated flagellate spores, |
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Fig. 2. Thalassolampe maxima, n. sp., |
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The entire living Spumellarium. c, The big spherical central capsule; a, the large alveoles filling the central capsule and surrounding a central nucleus; f, the pseudopodia piercing the extracapsular calymma. |
Fig. 2a. The nucleus alone, with numerous nucleoli, |
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Fig. 3. Thalassopila cladococcus, n. sp., |
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c, The big central capsule; a, numerous large alveoles contained in the central capsule; k, oil globules, many of which are placed in the radially striped cortical zone; the nucleus placed centrally, is covered with numerous radial apophyses or cæcal sacs. f, The radially striped calymma. |
Fig. 4. Thalassicolla maculata, n. sp., |
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c, The central capsule; v, vacuoles filling this capsule; n, the central nucleus; l, the concentric nucleolus; g, the voluminous calymma, a small radial piece of which is only represented; a, the large alveoles; b, peculiar exoplasmatic bodies; p, black pigment in the inner zone; f, the retracted pseudopodia in the outer zone. |
Fig. 4a. An exoplasmatic body, |
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Fig. 4b, Vacuoles in the endoplasm, |
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Fig. 5. Thalassicolla melacapsa, n. sp., |
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n, The large nucleus; l, numerous small nucleoli inside the nucleus; v, the vacuoles filling up the central capsule and separated by black pigment; a, large alveoles in the calymma; k, oil globules; b, exoplasmatic bodies; f, the retracted pseudopodia in the outer zone of the calymma. |
Fig. 5a. An endoplasmatic vacuole, resembling a cell, |
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Fig. 5b. A piece of the central capsule, |
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