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Nummulites Lamarck, 1801

520941  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520941)

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Genus
Blondeauina Boukhary, Abdelghany & Hussein-Kamel, 2010 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)  
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Sztrákos and Steurbaut (2017) [Nummulites bouillei constantly used]
Bruguieria Prever, 1902 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)
Camerina Bruguière, 1792 · unaccepted (nom. suppress.: ICZN Op. 192)
Camerina (Bruguieria) Prever, 1902 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Camerina (Laharpeia) Prever, 1902 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Craterocamerina Omara & Kenawy, 1979 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Discospira Morris in Mantell, 1850 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan...)  
Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987) No species included
Egeon Montfort, 1808 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Eoassilina S.N. Singh, 1957 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Gaziryina Muftah & Boukhary, 2013 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helicites Blainville, 1824 · unaccepted (Err. emend.)
Laharpeia Prever, 1902 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)
Lenticulina (Hantkenia) Prever, 1902 · unaccepted (junior homonym of Hantkenia...)  
junior homonym of Hantkenia Munier-Chalmas, 1885
Nummularia Sowerby & Sowerby, 1826 · unaccepted (err. emend.)
Nummulina d'Orbigny, 1826 · unaccepted (Err. emend.)
Nummulina (Paronaea) Grönwall, 1927 † · unaccepted (Nom. transl.)
Nummulita Fleming, 1828 · unaccepted (err. emend.)
Nummulites (Bruguieria) Prever, 1905 † · unaccepted (Nom. trans.)
Nummulites (Globulites) Nemkov, 1967 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Nummulites (Granulites) Nemkov, 1967 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Nummulites (Laharpeia) Prever, 1904 † · unaccepted (Nom. trans.)
Nummulites (Meskhethites) Mrevlishvili, 1972 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Nummulites (Nummulina) Heilprin, 1882 † · unaccepted (Nomen translatum)
Nummulites (Nummulites) Lamarck, 1801 · alternative representation
Nummulites (Paronaea) Prever, 1903 † · unaccepted (Nom. trans.)
Operculinoides Hanzawa, 1935 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Palaeonummulites Schubert, 1908 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)  
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Paraspiroclypeus Hanzawa, 1937 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Paronaea Prever, 1904 · unaccepted (Nom. subst. pro Lenticulina (Hantkenia))
Paronia Chelussi, 1903 † · unaccepted (err. cit. of Paronaea Prever,...)  
err. cit. of Paronaea Prever, 1903 [non Paronia Diamare, 1900]
Phacites Blumenbach, 1799 · unaccepted (nom. suppress.: ICZN Op. 192)
Planocamerinoides Cole, 1958 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Pseudonummulites A. Silvestri, 1937 · unaccepted (Nom. subst. pro Verbeekia)
Pseudonummulites Thalmann, 1941 · unaccepted (junior homonym of...)  
junior homonym of Pseudonummulites A.Silvestri, 1937

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Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): p. 101 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Nummulites Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520941 on 2025-07-08
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Nomenclature

original description Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): p. 101 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Nummulina d'Orbigny, 1826) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> vol. 7: 96-169, 245-314., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959
page(s): p. 295 [details] 

original description (of Helicites Blainville, 1824) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230
page(s): p. 179 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Camerina Bruguière, 1792) Bruguière, J. G. (1792). Camerine. In: Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire naturelle des Vers. 1: 395-400., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892383
page(s): p. 395 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Phacites Blumenbach, 1799) Blumenbach, J. E. (1799). Abbildungen naturhistorischer Gegenstände. <em>Göttingen: H. Dieterich.</em> 4(40): 1-2., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.119700
page(s): pl. 40 [details] 

original description (of Egeon Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571
page(s): p. 167 [details] 

original description (of Nummularia Sowerby & Sowerby, 1826) Sowerby, J. De C. (1826-1835). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. Vol. VI. London, privately published, pp. 1-230 + index [231-235], pls 504-609. [pp. 1-86, pls 504-545 (1826); pp. 87-156, pls 546-580 (1827); pp. 157-200, pls 581-597 (1828); pp. 201-230, pls 598-609, index pp. 231-235 (1829); systematical index (1835)]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50339
page(s): p. 73 [details] 

original description (of Nummulita Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): p. 233 [details] 

original description (of Discospira Morris in Mantell, 1850) Mantell, G. A., 1850, A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains Consisting of Illustrations Selected from Parkinson 's "Organic Remains of a Former World" and Artis' "Antediluvian Phytology." London: H. G. Bohn. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/44966#/summary
page(s): p. 142 [details] 

original description (of Camerina (Bruguieria) Prever, 1902) Prever, P. L. (1902). Le Nummuliti della Forca di Presta nell'Appennino centrale e dei dintorni di Potenza nell'Appennino meridionale. <em>Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse / Abhandlungen der schweizerischen paläontologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 29 (3): 1-121. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Camerina (Laharpeia) Prever, 1902) Prever, P. L. (1902). Le Nummuliti della Forca di Presta nell'Appennino centrale e dei dintorni di Potenza nell'Appennino meridionale. <em>Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse / Abhandlungen der schweizerischen paläontologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 29 (3): 1-121. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Lenticulina (Hantkenia) Prever, 1902) Prever, P. L. (1902). Le Nummuliti della Forca di Presta nell'Appennino centrale e dei dintorni di Potenza nell'Appennino meridionale. <em>Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse / Abhandlungen der schweizerischen paläontologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 29 (3): 1-121. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Paronaea Prever, 1904) Prever, P. L. (1904), Considerazioni sullo studio delle Nummuliti, Bolletino della Società Geologica Italiana 22[1903]:461-487. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51546470
page(s): p. 461 [details] 

original description (of Paronia Chelussi, 1903 †) Chelussi, I. (1903). Sulla geologia della Conca Aquilana. <em>Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali e del Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano.</em> 42: 58-87., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34970002
page(s): p. 74 [details] 

original description (of Palaeonummulites Schubert, 1908 †) Schubert, R. J. (1908). Zur Geologie des oesterreichischen Velebit. <em>Jahrbuch der kaiserlich-königlichen geologischen Reichsanstalt.</em> 58(2): 345-386., available online at https://opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=images&value=JB0582_345_A.pdf
page(s): p. 378 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Operculinoides Hanzawa, 1935) Hanzawa, S. (1935), Some fossil Operculina and Miogypsina from Japan and their stratigraphical significance, Science Reports of the Tohoku University. ser. 2, Geology 18(1): 1-29. , available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10097/30260
page(s): p. 18 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Pseudonummulites A. Silvestri, 1937) Silvestri, A. (1937). Foraminiferi dell'Oligocene e del Miocene della Somalia. <em>Palaeontographia Italica.</em> 32(suppl. 2): 45-264.
page(s): p. 149 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Paraspiroclypeus Hanzawa, 1937) Hanzawa, S. (1937), Notes on some interesting Cretaceous and Tertiary Foraminifera from the West Indies, Journal of Paleontology 11: 110-117. , available online at http://www.redciencia.cu/geobiblio/paper/1937_Hanzawa_Notes%20on%20Some%20Interesting%20Foraminifera.pdf
page(s): p. 116 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Pseudonummulites Thalmann, 1941) Thalmann, H. E., 1941, Bibliography and index to new genera, species and varieties of foraminifera for the years 1937 and 1938, Journal of Paleontology 15:629-690.
page(s): p. 658 [details] 

original description (of Eoassilina S.N. Singh, 1957) Singh, S. N. (1957). Two aberrant types of Nummulitidae from the Eocene of Rajasthan, India. <em>Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India.</em> 2:209-212., available online at https://palaeontologicalsociety.in/vol2/v30.pdf
page(s): p. 210 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Planocamerinoides Cole, 1958) Cole, W. S. (1958). Names of and Variation in Certain American Larger Foraminifera: Particularly the Camerinids. Nº 2. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 38: 257-284., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28022851
page(s): p. 262 [details] 

original description (of Craterocamerina Omara & Kenawy, 1979) Omara, S., and A. Kenawy, 1979, Craterocamerina, a new nummulite genus from the Nile Valley and EI Fayoum, Egypt, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 158:123-138.
page(s): p. 126 [details] 

original description (of Bruguieria Prever, 1902) Prever, P. L. (1902). Le Nummuliti della Forca di Presta nell'Appennino centrale e dei dintorni di Potenza nell'Appennino meridionale. <em>Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse / Abhandlungen der schweizerischen paläontologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 29 (3): 1-121. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Laharpeia Prever, 1902 †) Prever, P. L. (1902). Le Nummuliti della Forca di Presta nell'Appennino centrale e dei dintorni di Potenza nell'Appennino meridionale. <em>Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse / Abhandlungen der schweizerischen paläontologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 29 (3): 1-121. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Nummulites (Laharpeia) Prever, 1904 †) Prever, P. L. (1904), Considerazioni sullo studio delle Nummuliti, Bolletino della Società Geologica Italiana 22[1903]:461-487. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51546470 [details] 

original description (of Nummulites (Bruguieria) Prever, 1905 †) Prever, P. L. (1905). Sulla fauna nummulitica della Scaglia nell'Appennino centrale. <em>Atti Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.</em> 40[1904/1905] (10): 566-578., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12482731 [details] 

original description (of Nummulites (Operculinoides) Cizancourt, 1948 †) Cizancourt, M. de. (1948). Nummulites de l'ile de Barbade (Petits Antilles). Mém. Soc. Géol. de France, nouvelle série, tome 27, fasc. 1, feuilles 1-5, Mém. 57, pp. 1-40. [details] 

original description (of Nummulina (Paronaea) Grönwall, 1927 †) Grönwall, K. A. (1927). Nummulitenkalkstein von Kuh-I-Nachschir. In Hedin, S., Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien vol. 2. <em>Stockholm Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt.</em> 466-476., available online at https://archive.org/stream/eineroutenaufnah02hedi#page/466/
page(s): p. 469 [details] 

original description (of Nummulites (Nummulina) Heilprin, 1882 †) Heilprin, A. (1882). On the occurrence of nummulitic deposits in Florida, and the association of Nummulites with a fresh-water fauna. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 34(2), 189-193., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4060484.pdf [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Nummulites (Meskhethites) Mrevlishvili, 1972 †) Mrevlishvili, N. I. (1972). О систематическом значении некоторых морфологических признаков нуммулитов - On the systematic significance of some morphological features of nummulites. <em>Trudy Tbilis. Gosudarst. Univ., (fiz.-mat. i estestv. nauki).</em> 4(146): 183-191 (in Russian with Georgian summary).
page(s): p. 189 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Nummulites (Globulites) Nemkov, 1967 †) Nemkov, G. I. (1967). Нуммулитиды Советского Союза и их биостратиграфическое значение - Nummulitides of the Soviet Union and their biostratigraphic significance. <em>Материалы к познанию геологического строения СССР - Materials to the knowledge of the geological structure of the USSR.</em> 16: 1-319., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=pruoEAAAQBAJ
page(s): p. 46, 200 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Nummulites (Granulites) Nemkov, 1967 †) Nemkov, G. I. (1967). Нуммулитиды Советского Союза и их биостратиграфическое значение - Nummulitides of the Soviet Union and their biostratigraphic significance. <em>Материалы к познанию геологического строения СССР - Materials to the knowledge of the geological structure of the USSR.</em> 16: 1-319., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=pruoEAAAQBAJ
page(s): p. 46, 164 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Gaziryina Muftah & Boukhary, 2013 †) Muftah, A. M.; Boukhary, M. (2013). New Late Eocene genus <i>Gaziryina</i> (Foraminifera) from the Al Bayda Formation (Shahhat Marl Member), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Northern Cyrenaica, Libya. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 59(2/3): 103–109., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272696891
page(s): p. 105 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Blondeauina Boukhary, Abdelghany & Hussein-Kamel, 2010 †) Boukhary, M.; Abdelghany, O.; Hussein-Kamel, Y.; Bahr, S.; Alsayigh, A. R.; Abdelraouf, M. (2010). Oligocene larger foraminifera from United Arab Emirates, Oman and Western Desert of Egypt. <em>Historical Biology.</em> 22(4): 348-366., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/08912960903570047
page(s): p. 359 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1945). Opinion 192. Suspension of the Rules for <i>Nummulites</i> Lamarck, 1801 (Class Rhizopoda, Order Foraminifera). <em>Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 3(11): 137-160., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/149718 [details] 

Other

additional source Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Diagnosis Test globular, lenticular or discoidal, commonly large, up to about 12 cm in diameter, dimorphism pronounced in larger species, planispirally enrolled, commonly involute but may be evolute in the later stage, proloculus and deuteroconch separated by an imperforate common wall with a single central round pore and with a row of pores at the base of the septum, outer wall of the embryonal chambers perforate, later chambers simple and undivided, many per whorl, septa curved back at the periphery and may be sigmoidal, supplementary stolons in the unfolded septa, distinct marginal cord on the periphery, marginal canal with a network of elongate meshes, sutural canals ramified, directed obliquely backward and foreward on both sides of the septa, the oblique paths of the sutural canals and the branches in the lateral walls visible on the lateral wall surface where the offset pores leave narrow unperforated bands as transverse trabeculae, dissolution may modify the trabecular canals into radial passages that directly connect the canal systems of superposed whorls of involute tests, supplementary lateral passages result from gaps in the septa between adjacent alar prolongations of the involute chambers, pillars may be interspersed between septal filaments and appear at the surface as pustules; aperture in all post prolocular chambers consists of a row of pores at the base of the face. Paleocene to Holocene; tropical and subtropical cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]

Grammatical gender Opinion 192 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1945) fixed that the gender of Nummulites is masculine. [details]
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