Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, 1882

Trubovitz, Sarah, Renaudie, Johan, Lazarus, David & Noble, Paula, 2022, Late Neogene Lophophaenidae (Nassellaria, Radiolaria) from the eastern equatorial Pacific, Zootaxa 5160 (1), pp. 1-158 : 44

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, 1882

Plate 15, Figs. 7A–C .

Lithomelissa macroptera n. sp., Ehrenberg, 1874, p. 211, pl. 3, fig. 8 (non figs. 9–10).

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi n. sp., Bütschli, 1882, pl. 33, fig. 21a–b.

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, Dumitrica, 1973 , pl. 25, figs. 6–7.

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, Caulet, 1991 , pl. 2, fig. 3.

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, Hollis, 1997 , pl. 3, figs. 17–20.

Lithomelissa sp. , Kozlova, 1999, pl. 31, fig. 13.

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, O’Connor, 1999 , pl. 9, fig. 20.

Lithomelissa macroptera Ehrenberg, Ogane et al., 2009 , pl. 4, figs. 3a–3c,?4a–4d, 7a–7d (non pl. 19, fig. 6a–6d; pl. 79, fig. 6a–6c).

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, Pascher et al., 2015 , pl. 2, figs. 10–11.

Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, Trubovitz et al., 2020 , supplementary data 7.

Remarks. Bütschli (1882) considered the species Lithomelissa macroptera described by Ehrenberg (1874) to actually contain two species. So, he split out one specimen figured by Ehrenberg (pl. 3, fig. 8) as representative of the new species Lithomelissa ehrenbergi Bütschli, 1882 . This was adopted later by Haeckel (1887), and the subsequent authors we encountered in the literature.

Range. Late Miocene—Recent, EEP ( Table 1 ).

Figures

FIGURE 7. Internal skeletal structure of Arachnocorys umbellifera (Haeckel, 1862) Petrushevskaya, 1971.