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[[File: Fig 27.jpg|thumb|<font size="2">'''Fig. 1.''' Canaliferous spines in ''Baculogypsina sphaerulata'' (Parker et Jones), Keij Island, Indonesia. Recent. SEM graphs. '''A-B:''' Epoxy resin casts of shell cavities, the mineralized shell having been dissolved, showing that spine canals originate as extensions of an intraseptal interlocular space, that is then transformed into canals. They feed in their turn the supplemental chamberlets overgrowing the base of the spine. 
'''C-D:''' Shell showing chessboard pattern of supplemental chamberlets, overgrowing the base of the canalled spine and fed in part by the overgrown canal orifices.
'''a:''' [[aperture]] (of lateral chamberlet); '''co:''' canal orifice; '''csp:''' canalicular spine; '''lcl:''' [[lateral chamberlet]]; '''lh:''' [[loop-hole]]; '''nep:''' (spiral) [[nepiont]]; '''sp(c):''' [[spine canals]]; '''st:''' [[stolon]]; (Hottinger, 2006; fig. 27 [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html] '''CC'''/BY-NC-SA)]]
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==Definition==
*''according to Hottinger (2006):''
'''CANALICULATE SPINE''' - (=canaliferous spine); a spine- or club-shaped to arborescent radial structure composed of consecutive outer lamellae enclosing canals ([[supplemental skeleton]]). May contain [[spikes]]. Compare [[pseudospine]]; [[spine]].







==See also==
* [[pseudospine]]
* [[spikes]]
* [[spine]]
* [[supplemental skeleton]]


==References==
Hottinger (2006), [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Illustrated glossary of terms used in foraminiferal research]. [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/uk-index.html Carnets de Géologie], [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2006_M02/index.html Memoir 2], ISSN 1634-0744                                    

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