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Octagonal bipyramid

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Type
  
bipyramid

Edges
  
24

Schläfli symbol
  
{ } + {8}

Faces
  
16 triangles

Vertices
  
10

Octagonal bipyramid

Symmetry group
  
D8h, [8,2], (*228), order 32

The octagonal bipyramid is one of the infinite set of bipyramids, dual to the infinite prisms. If an octagonal bipyramid is to be face-transitive, all faces must be isosceles triangles.

Images

It can be drawn as a tiling on a sphere which also represents the fundamental domains of [4,2], *422 symmetry:

References

Octagonal bipyramid Wikipedia