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THE FAUNA OF THE DEEP SEA 



in which respects they strikingly resemble the fossil 

 Radiolaria of Barbadoes and Nicobar islands.' The 

 Phaeodaria are very widely distributed over the floor 

 of the ocean, and occur in some districts in such 

 numbers that the ' Challenger' was able to bring home 

 some hundreds of thousands of specimens. They are 

 distinguished from other Radiolaria by the thick outer 

 and thin inner capsule, by the typical main opening 

 or atropyle placed on the oral pole of the main axis 

 with a radiate operculuni provided with a tubular 



proboscis, and lastly by the presence 

 of the phaDodium, a voluminous pig- 

 ment body which lies invariably on 

 the oral half of the calymma and 



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is composed of numerous singular 

 pigment granules of green, olive, 



brown > or black colour ' 



There are many genera belong- 



mg to the Forammifera that are 

 T P ba % inhabitants of abys- 

 of protoplasm in j Depths, but they do not seem 



the catyrnnia. J 



After Haeckel. ^ Q p OSgess an y special characters, 



unless it be a greater thickness and density of 

 their shells, to distinguish them from their shallow- 

 water allies. 



