WoRMS name details
Polysolenia setosa Ehrenberg, 1873
1710554 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1710554)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1872). Mikrogeologische Studien als Zusammenfassung seiner Beobachtungen des kleinsten Lebens der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluß. <em>Monatsbericht der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1872: 265-322., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35721195 [details] 
Taxonomic remark Polysolenia is either a nomen dubium or possibly a valid name but for tubular, not spinose forms. Polysolenia setosa has...
Taxonomic remark Polysolenia is either a nomen dubium or possibly a valid name but for tubular, not spinose forms. Polysolenia setosa has only very rarely been used, and either in ignorance, or clear mis-reading of the literature. [details]
WoRMS (2025). Polysolenia setosa Ehrenberg, 1873. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1710554 on 2025-04-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1872). Mikrogeologische Studien als Zusammenfassung seiner Beobachtungen des kleinsten Lebens der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluß. <em>Monatsbericht der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1872: 265-322., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35721195 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Strelkov, A.A.; Reshetnyak, V.V. (1971). Colonial spumellarian radiolarians of the world oceans, radiolarians of the ocean, Reports of the Soviet expeditions. Explorations of the fauna of the seas. Nauka Leningrad Dep., Leningrad, pp. 295–418. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Zhang, L.; Suzuki, N.; Nakamura, Y.; Tuji, A. (2018). Modern shallow water radiolarians with photosynthetic microbiota in the western North Pacific. <em>Marine Micropaleontology.</em> 139: 1-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2017.10.007 [details] Available for editors 
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ecology source Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. <em>Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.</em> 70(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12972 [details]
[request]ecology source Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. <em>Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.</em> 70(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12972 [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Polysolenia is either a nomen dubium or possibly a valid name but for tubular, not spinose forms. Polysolenia setosa has only very rarely been used, and either in ignorance, or clear mis-reading of the literature. [details]
