6. Amphymenium fusiforme, n. sp.
Both arms equal, lanceolate, three times as long as broad in the width, with seven to eight joints. Distal end pointed, armed with a strong conical terminal spine. Patagium complete, enveloping the whole shell with exception of the terminal spines. Whole form spindle-shaped.
Dimensions.—Radius of each arm 0.2, greatest breadth 0.07; transverse breadth of the patagium 0.15.
Habitat.—South Atlantic, Station 330, surface.
Genus 225. Amphirrhopalum,[1] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 460.
Definition.—Porodiscida with two chambered arms, opposite in one axis, without a patagium; one arm or both forked at the distal end.
The genus Amphirrhopalum differs from Amphibrachium, its ancestral form, by bifurcation of the distal ends of the arms, which may affect either both arms, or only one of them.
Subgenus 1. Amphirrhopalium, Haeckel.
Definition.—Both opposite arms of similar size and form, with blunt branches, without terminal spines.
1. Amphirrhopalum ximorphum, n. sp.
Both arms equal, in the proximal half simple, in the distal half forked, with six to seven transverse septa; distal end of each branch blunt, without terminal spine, somewhat broader than the base of the whole arm. Axis of the branches concavely curved. (Resembles Amphicraspedum maclaganium, Pl. 45, fig. 11, but wants the patagium.)
Dimensions.—Radius of the arms 0.18, basal breadth 0.065; terminal breadth of each branch 0.075.
Habitat.—North Pacific, off Japan, Station 240, surface.
2. Amphirrhopalum amphidicranum, n. sp.
Both arms equal, in the proximal half simple, in the distal half forked, with irregular septa; distal end of each arm blunt, without a terminal spine, smaller than the basal breadth of the arm. Axis of the branches straight. (Resembles Dicranastrum furcatum, Pl. 47, fig. 2, but without lateral arms.)
Dimensions.—Radius of each arm 0.15, basal breadth 0.03; terminal breadth of each branch 0.02.
Habitat.—Pacific, central area, Station 263, depth 2650 fathoms.
- ↑ Amphirrhopalum = Shell with clubs on both sides; ἀμφί, ῥόπαλον.
