Foraminifera taxon details

Androsina Lévy, 1977

415058  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415058)

accepted
Genus
Androsina lucasi Lévy, 1977 (type by original designation)

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Lévy, A. (1977). Révision micropaléontologique des Soritidae actuels Bahamiens. Un nouveau genre: Androsina [Revision of Recent Soritidae from the Bahamas. A new genus: Androsina]. <em>Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Exploration-Production ELF-Aquitaine.</em> 1: 393-449.
page(s): p. 418 [details]   
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Androsina Lévy, 1977. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415058 on 2024-03-29
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original description Lévy, A. (1977). Révision micropaléontologique des Soritidae actuels Bahamiens. Un nouveau genre: Androsina [Revision of Recent Soritidae from the Bahamas. A new genus: Androsina]. <em>Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Exploration-Production ELF-Aquitaine.</em> 1: 393-449.
page(s): p. 418 [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  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test flat, up to 3 mm in diameter, early stage planispirally coiled and involute, chambers rapidly increasing in breadth so that test becomes peneropliform, then flabelliform, and finally the broad, low, strongly arched chambers approach but do not become completely annular, interior subdivided by a median equatorial series of flattened pillars, each pillar thickest near its attachment to the septa above and below, partly dividing the chamber cavity in half, numerous short vertical partitions also project inward, perpendicular to the outer wall and alternating in position with the apertures and foramina; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, opaque, surface with numerous fine pseudopores; apertural face flattened, and bearing two or rarely four rows of rounded or oval pores with thick rims. Quaternary to Holocene; Bahamas. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]