Foraminifera taxon details

Metarotaliella Grell, 1962

556148  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:556148)

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Grell, K. G. (1962). Entwicklung und Geschlechtsdifferenzierung einer neuen Foraminifere. <em>Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature.</em> 49(9): 214-214., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00633972
page(s): p. 214 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Metarotaliella Grell, 1962. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556148 on 2024-03-29
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2010-12-20 09:45:26Z
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2010-12-23 03:53:44Z
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original description Grell, K. G. (1962). Entwicklung und Geschlechtsdifferenzierung einer neuen Foraminifere. <em>Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature.</em> 49(9): 214-214., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00633972
page(s): p. 214 [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] 
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Diagnosis Test tiny, up to 0.09 mm in diameter, about one and a half trochospiral whorls and four to five inflated chambers in the final whorl, sutures curved and depressed on the convex spiral side, radial on the umbilical side, with wide and open umbilicus; wall calcareous, weakly calcified, perforate, and smooth to finely pitted on the spiral side, umbilical side imperforate and smooth except for two to three radial creases in each chamber adjacent to the umbilicus; aperture umbilical, bordered on either side by small projections that rim the umbilicus; heterocaryotic, with one vegetative and three reproductive nuclei, sexual reproduction plastogamic with amoeboid gametes, obligately from different parents. Holocene; France; USA: Georgia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]