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Hoeglundina neocarinata
Hoeglundina neocarinata
Description Description.Test trochospiral, unequally biconvex, subcircular in outline recognized easily by its clear wall showing a cloudy mottling under a light microscope; spiral side evolute, slightly convex; umbilical side involute, more strongly convex; peripheral margin strongly keeled; on the spiral side, sutures flush, indistinct, obscured by irregularly distributed, low tubercles; on the umbilical side, 7-9 somewhat inflated chambers with depressed and nearly radiate sutures; wall finely perforated on both sides; apertural face truncate, with an acute, nearly keeled border; aperture one or two small openings at the base of the apertural chamber and a long slit-like peripheral opening parallel to the margin and provided with a prominent inner lip, still visible on the last 3 or 4 chambers. Author Debenay, Jean-Pierre ·  JPG file - 4.20 MB - 4 016 x 4 016 pixelsmore
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 added on 2013-03-27450 viewsForaminifera taxa Hoeglundina neocarinata Debenay, 2013checked Hayward, Bruce W. 2013-08-30 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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