Foraminifera taxon details

Virgulinopsis Hofker, 1956

416139  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:416139)

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Genus
Bolivina cubana Bermúdez, 1935 accepted as Virgulinopsis cubana (Bermúdez, 1935) (type by original designation)

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Hofker, J. (1956). Foraminifera Dentata: Foraminifera of Santa Cruz and Thatch Island, Virginia Archipelago, West Indies. <em>Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis.</em> 15: 1-237.
page(s): p. 47 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Virgulinopsis Hofker, 1956. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416139 on 2024-03-28
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original description Hofker, J. (1956). Foraminifera Dentata: Foraminifera of Santa Cruz and Thatch Island, Virginia Archipelago, West Indies. <em>Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis.</em> 15: 1-237.
page(s): p. 47 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [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  PDF available [request] 

additional source Revets, S. A. (1996). The generic revision of five families of Rotaliine Foraminifera - Part 1. The Bolivinitidae Cushman, 1927. <em>Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication.</em> 1-55., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/SpecialPublications/sp34.pdf [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test elongate, early chambers form a short triserial stage, later biserial, slightly compressed and ovate in section, chambers increasing rapidly in height as added, sutures distinct, depressed, margins lobulate; wall calcareous, finely perforate but with poreless apertural face, surface striate to narrowly costate; aperture elongate, at the base of the chamber in the early stage, nearly terminal in the adult, flaring toothplate with folded and irregularly lobed attached part and folded narrow free part with fimbriate margin. Holocene; Caribbean. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]