Deep-Sea taxon details
Homalohedra Patterson & Richardson, 1987
465891 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465891)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
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
Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors
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Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Homalohedra Patterson & Richardson, 1987. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465891 on 2024-08-18
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Homalohedra Patterson & Richardson, 1987. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465891 on 2024-08-18
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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
original description Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
original description Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test unilocular but double specimens may occur, ovate to pyriform, circular in section; wall calcareous, hyaline, translucent, surface with a few heavy longitudinal ribs that extend up the wall from a circular ring near the test base to merge into a ringlike collar just below the apertural neck; aperture rounded at the end of the brief smooth neck, provided with a short, straight entosolenian tube. Pleistocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]