WoRMS taxon details
Coscinospira Ehrenberg, 1839
112063 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112063)
accepted
Genus
Coscinospira hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1839 (type by subsequent designation)
Coscinopira Ehrenberg, 1839 · unaccepted (Incorrect subsequent spelling)
Cribrospirolina Haman, 1972 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Coscinospira forskalii Ehrenberg, 1839
- Species Coscinospira georgforsteri Parker & Gischler, 2024
- Species Coscinospira hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1839
- Subgenus Coscinospira (Spirolina) Ehrenberg, 1839 accepted as Spirolina Lamarck, 1804
- Species Coscinospira arietina (Batsch, 1791) accepted as Peneroplis arietinus (Batsch, 1791) (Opinion of Forderer et al (2018))
- Species Coscinospira acicularis (Batsch, 1791) represented as Spirolina acicularis (Batsch, 1791) accepted as Monalysidium acicularis (Batsch, 1791) accepted as Monalysidium aciculare (Batsch, 1791)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
page(s): p. 110, Chart opp. p. 120, p. 131 [details]
page(s): p. 110, Chart opp. p. 120, p. 131 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Coscinospira Ehrenberg, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112063 on 2025-07-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
page(s): p. 110, Chart opp. p. 120, p. 131 [details]
original description (of Cribrospirolina Haman, 1972) Haman, D. (1972). Cribrospirolina, a New Genus of the Family Soritidae. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 18(1): 110-114., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484984
page(s): p. 111 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): p. 110, Chart opp. p. 120, p. 131 [details]
original description (of Cribrospirolina Haman, 1972) Haman, D. (1972). Cribrospirolina, a New Genus of the Family Soritidae. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 18(1): 110-114., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484984
page(s): p. 111 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
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]
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]From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, spiroline, large, up to 2.2 mm in length, slightly flattened, early stage planispirally enrolled and evolute with numerous chambers per whorl, biumbilicate, later uncoiling with up to six inflated rectilinear chambers, sutures radial and straight to slightly arched in the coiled stage, horizontal in the uncoiled part; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface longitudinally finely striate; aperture terminal, cribrate, of numerous rounded pores centered in the terminal face. Holocene; Red Sea; Saudi Arabia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
