Foraminifera taxon details
Cystammina Neumayr, 1889
182932 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182932)
accepted
Genus
Trochammina pauciloculata Brady, 1879 accepted as Cystammina pauciloculata (Brady, 1879) (type by subsequent designation)
Ammochilostoma Eimer & Fickert, 1899 · unaccepted (Objective junior synonym,...)
Objective junior synonym, Loeblich & Tappan (1987)
- Species Cystammina aguayoi Bermúdez & Acosta, 1940
- Species Cystammina argentea Earland, 1934
- Species Cystammina pauciloculata (Brady, 1879)
- Species Cystammina spiculifera Zheng, 1988
- Species Cystammina sveni Gradstein & Kaminski, 1997 †
- Species Cystammina galeata (Brady, 1881) accepted as Buzasina galeata (Brady, 1881)
- Species Cystammina subgaleata Vašíček, 1947 † accepted as Praesphaerammina subgaleata (Vašíček, 1947) † (Type species of Praesphaerammina)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Neumayr, M., 1889, Die Stämme des Thierreiches, wirbellose Thiere, vol. 1. Vienna: F. Tempsky.
page(s): p. 167 [details]
page(s): p. 167 [details]
Diagnosis Test free, small, streptospirally enrolled, chambers rapidly enlarging and inflated, commonly only four to five visible...
Diagnosis Test free, small, streptospirally enrolled, chambers rapidly enlarging and inflated, commonly only four to five visible externally, sutures distinct, depressed; wall thin, finely agglutinated, poorly cemented, invariably reddishbrown to yellowish in color; aperture an ovate to elongate areal slit paralleling and just above the suture of the final chamber against the oldest exposed chambers. Eocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific; Antarctic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Cystammina Neumayr, 1889. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182932 on 2026-04-24
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Neumayr, M., 1889, Die Stämme des Thierreiches, wirbellose Thiere, vol. 1. Vienna: F. Tempsky.
page(s): p. 167 [details]
original description (of Ammochilostoma Eimer & Fickert, 1899) Eimer, G. H. T.; Fickert, C. (1899). Die Artbildung und Verwandtschaft bei den Foraminiferen. Entwurf einer natürlichen Eintheilung derselben. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 65: 599-708., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43249091
page(s): p. 692 [details]
basis of record BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
page(s): p. 167 [details]
original description (of Ammochilostoma Eimer & Fickert, 1899) Eimer, G. H. T.; Fickert, C. (1899). Die Artbildung und Verwandtschaft bei den Foraminiferen. Entwurf einer natürlichen Eintheilung derselben. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 65: 599-708., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43249091
page(s): p. 692 [details]
basis of record BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test free, small, streptospirally enrolled, chambers rapidly enlarging and inflated, commonly only four to five visible externally, sutures distinct, depressed; wall thin, finely agglutinated, poorly cemented, invariably reddishbrown to yellowish in color; aperture an ovate to elongate areal slit paralleling and just above the suture of the final chamber against the oldest exposed chambers. Eocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific; Antarctic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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