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Takahashi 1991


Plate 52

Suborder: Phaeodaria
Family: Challengeriidae

Figure, Species, Station depth (m), Type of Micrograph, Magnification

1. Protocystis xiphodon (Haeckel), PB: 1268, SEM, x 220.

2. Protocystis xiphodon (Haeckel), PB: 1268, LM, x 210.

3. Protocystis xiphodon (Haeckel), View from inside of a broken specimen showing amphorae and their necks securing themselves to inside surface membrane, PB: 1268, SEM, x 4700.

4. Protocystis tritonis (Haeckel), E: 389, LM, x 210.

5. Protocystis trionis (Haeckel), E: 389, LM, x 210.

6. Protocystis naresi (Murray), Lateral view, E: 988, SEM, x 47.

7. Protocystis naresi (Murray), Microstructure showing amphorae which are slightly more elongated than those in other 16 species of Challengeriidae, E: 988, SEM, x 3600.

8. Protocystis naresi (Murray), Oblique oral view, E: 988, SEM, x 75.

9. Entocannula infundibulum Haeckel, PB: 1268, LM, x 160.

10. Entocannula infundibulum Haeckel, PB: 3769, SEM, x 110.

11. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Microstructure showing delicate amphorae which have many small pores connected with inside of the shell, PB: 1268, SEM, x 4000.

12. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Shell surface is alveolate and very different from all other Challengeriidae studied here; dorsal view, PB: 1268, SEM, x 900.

13. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Lateral view, PB: 1268, LM, x 210.

14. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Oblique ventral view, PB: 389, LM, x 210.

15. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Ventral view, PB: 667, LM, x 210.

16. Challengeranium diodon (Haeckel), Ventral view, E: 988, SEM, x 385.