WoRMS taxon details
Francuscia McCulloch, 1981
415401 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415401)
accepted
Genus
Frankia cernuata McCulloch, 1977 accepted as Frankinella cernuata (McCulloch, 1977) accepted as Francuscia cernuata (McCulloch, 1977) (type by original designation)
Frankia McCulloch, 1977 · unaccepted (Homonym of Frankia Brunchorst, 1886)
Frankinella McCulloch, 1981 · unaccepted (Junior homonym of Frankinella...)
Junior homonym of Frankinella Stewart & Hendrix 1945
Mitrapolymorphina Loeblich & Tappan, 1986 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan,...)
Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 Nomen superfluum
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
McCulloch, I. (1981). Francuscia (Foraminiferida): A New Name for Frankia McCulloch, 1977 Non-Brunchorst 1886, and for Frankinella McCulloch 1981 Non Stewart & Hendrix 1945. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Technical Report.</em> 6. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Francuscia McCulloch, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415401 on 2025-05-09
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Nomenclature
original description
McCulloch, I. (1981). Francuscia (Foraminiferida): A New Name for Frankia McCulloch, 1977 Non-Brunchorst 1886, and for Frankinella McCulloch 1981 Non Stewart & Hendrix 1945. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Technical Report.</em> 6. [details]
original description (of Frankinella McCulloch, 1981) McCulloch, I. (1981). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests. Part IV with emphasis on the Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition Collections. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 362 p. 72 pls. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Frankia McCulloch, 1977) McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Mitrapolymorphina Loeblich & Tappan, 1986) Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1986). Some New and Revised Genera and Families of Hyaline Calcareous Foraminiferida (Protozoa). <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 105(3): 239-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3226297
page(s): p. 248 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Frankinella McCulloch, 1981) McCulloch, I. (1981). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests. Part IV with emphasis on the Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition Collections. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 362 p. 72 pls. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Frankia McCulloch, 1977) McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Mitrapolymorphina Loeblich & Tappan, 1986) Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1986). Some New and Revised Genera and Families of Hyaline Calcareous Foraminiferida (Protozoa). <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 105(3): 239-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3226297
page(s): p. 248 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
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]
[request]From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test elongate, slightly compressed, early chambers biserially arranged and strongly overlapping at the test margins as in Polymorphina, final chamber globular, centered or slightly eccentric, produced terminally into a short neck, sutures strongly oblique and depressed in the early stage, final one nearly straight and horizontal, strongly constricted; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture rounded, terminal on the short cylindrical neck. Holocene; E. Pacific; Gulf of California, Mexico. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
