Foraminifera taxon details
Mesosigmoilina Zheng, 1981
531946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:531946)
accepted
Genus
Pseudosigmoilina minuta S.Y. Zheng, 1979 accepted as Mesosigmoilina minuta (Zheng, 1979) (type by original designation)
Pseudosigmoilina S.Y. Zheng, 1979 · unaccepted (Junior homonym of...)
Junior homonym of Pseudosigmoilina Bartenstein, 1965
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Zheng, Shou-Yi, 1981, Mesosigmoilina, a new name for Pseudosigmoilina Zheng, 1979, preoccupied, Journal of Paleontology 55:483.
page(s): p. 483 [details]
page(s): p. 483 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Mesosigmoilina Zheng, 1981. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531946 on 2024-04-19
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Zheng, Shou-Yi, 1981, Mesosigmoilina, a new name for Pseudosigmoilina Zheng, 1979, preoccupied, Journal of Paleontology 55:483.
page(s): p. 483 [details]
original description (of Pseudosigmoilina S.Y. Zheng, 1979) 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. 129 [details] Available for editors
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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. 483 [details]
original description (of Pseudosigmoilina S.Y. Zheng, 1979) 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. 129 [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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Diagnosis Test elongate, subfusiform, chambers onehalf coil in length, added in a sigmoiline series, lateral extensions of the chamber wall strongly overlapping all earlier chambers but the penultimate one and only two chambers visible from the exterior, chambers with complete floors, not closely appressed and in section may show gaps between chambers; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, surface may have longitudinal costae; aperture small, rounded, without a tooth, at the end of a protruding neck that may have a phialine lip. Holocene; China: Xisha Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]