On the nomenclature of the Foraminifera. Pt. III. The species enumerated by Von Fichtel and Von Moll / by W.K. Parker and T.R. Jones.

  • William Kitchen Parker
Date:
1860
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Credit: On the nomenclature of the Foraminifera. Pt. III. The species enumerated by Von Fichtel and Von Moll / by W.K. Parker and T.R. Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [From the Annals and Magazine of Natueal History/or Fchruary 1800.] ON THE NOMENCLATURE OE THE EORAMINIEERA. BY W. K. PARKER, M. Micr. Soc., and T. R. JONES, F.G.S. Part III.—77ie Species enumerated bij Von Ficlitel and Von Moll. The work we have now to treat of has been already incidentally noticed in our foi’iner papers. It is entitled :— '‘Testacea Microscopica aliaque minuta ex generibus Argo- nauta et Nautilus ad naturam delineata et descripta a Leopoldo a Fichtel et Jo. Paulo Carolo a Moll. Cum 24 Tabulis seri incisis.” Alicroscopische und audere kleine Schalthiere aus den Geschlechtern Argonaute und SchiflFer, nach der Natp gezeich- net und beschi’ieben von Leopold von Fichtel (Mitglied der Linneischer Gesellschaft zu London, und der Asiatischen zu Calcutta), und Job. Paul Carl von Moll. Mit 24 Kupfertafeln. 4to. Wien, 1803.”) In the works of ^Aalker and Montagu previously noticed by us*, we have had to do with, for the most part, dwarfish forms belonging to northern habitats; and hence many of them have;, had to be ranked as varieties, of but secondary value zoologically^ In the Linnsean list of Foraminifera (see our paper in the Anrr/' Nat. Hist. 3 ser. vol. iii. p. 474, &c.) there are several typical' forms, which attracted the attention of the older naturalists jj but in the work before us we have a fine, though incomplete,' spies of large, well-grown, specific types, which have been the source of numerous quasi-generic and pseudo-specific distinc- tions in the works of later authors. These writers have been guided by the false analogy of Molluscan types, which, however, have nothing in common with Rhizopodous shells, except simi- larity of form, or isomorphism; and it was not until naturalists recognized the really low grade of the Foraminifera, as demon- strated by Dujardin (1835) with respect to several of their forms, that their classification was seen to be dependent upon a wide range of variation within specific limits, such as one again finds only in the lower members of the vegetable kingdom. Fichtel and Moll, in their Preface, give a rapid glance at what had been already effected in the working out of the Foraminifera, and express their dissatisfaction with the result. The micro- scopical Nautiloid shells chosen by them for description are not. * Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. .3. vol. iv. p. 33.3, &c.