original description
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. 277 [details]
basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test globose, trochospirally enrolled, chambers spherical to ovate but not radially elongate, enlarging rapidly as added, commonly only three to five in the final whorl, sutures distinct, depressed, umbilicus open, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, perforate, with cylindrical pores, surface in life has numerous long slender spines of circular cross section that are broken on dead or fossil shells, the short blunt spine remnants resulting in a hispid wall surface; primary aperture a high umbilical arch that may be bordered by an imperforate rim or narrow lip, no secondary apertures. U. Eocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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