WoRMS taxon details
Torresina Parr, 1947
527067 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527067)
accepted
Genus
Torresina haddoni Parr, 1947 (type by original designation)
- Species Torresina haddoni Parr, 1947
- Species Torresina involuta (Sidebottom, 1918)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Parr, W. J. (1947). On Torresina, A New Genus of The Foraminifera From Eastern Australia. <em>Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society.</em> 64(3-4)[1944]: 129-135., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1944.tb00921.x
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Torresina Parr, 1947. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527067 on 2024-11-21
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Parr, W. J. (1947). On Torresina, A New Genus of The Foraminifera From Eastern Australia. <em>Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society.</em> 64(3-4)[1944]: 129-135., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1944.tb00921.x
page(s): p. 130 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 [request]
page(s): p. 130 [details] Available for editors
[request]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
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Diagnosis Test ovate in outline, flattened, trochospiral, one margin of the truncate periphery carinate, about two rapidly enlarging whorls, the final one with about six crescentic to semicircular chambers, spiral side slightly convex, umbilical side flat to concave, radially aligned infoldings of the wall on the spiral side partially subdivide the later chambers perpendicular to the septum and outer wall, the pseudoseptula increasing in number in later chambers; wall calcareous, optically radial, coarsely perforate; aperture a short equatorial areal opening bordered by a thickened lip, secondary opening at the inner chamber margin on the umbilical side. Pliocene to Holocene; Australia; S. Pacific: Torres Straits, at about 71 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
