Foraminifera taxon details
Pyropiloides Zheng, 1979
527076 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527076)
accepted
Genus
Pyropiloides elongatus Zheng, 1979 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
Zheng, S.-Y. (1978). The Recent foraminifera of the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. II. <em>Studia marina sinica.</em> 15: 101-232.
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page(s): p. 185, 227 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality contained in Xisha Islands
type locality contained in Xisha Islands [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Pyropiloides Zheng, 1979. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527076 on 2024-04-24
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Zheng, S.-Y. (1978). The Recent foraminifera of the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. II. <em>Studia marina sinica.</em> 15: 101-232.
page(s): p. 185, 227 [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. 185, 227 [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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test attached, elongate, slightly flattened, early stage with globular chambers in low trochospiral coil and whorls enlarging rapidly, later chambers increasing in breadth and becoming spreading, sutures radial, depressed, umbilicus open, periphery rounded, peripheral margin lobulate; wall calcareous, coarsely and densely perforate, organic lining imparting a reddish-brown color to the early whorl, later whorls lighter in color, surface smooth; aperture in the early stage an interiomarginal arch extending from the umbilicus to the periphery, becoming umbilical in position in the adult. Holocene; China: Xisha Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]