WoRMS taxon details
Lobatula Fleming, 1828
112135 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112135)
accepted
Genus
Lobatula vulgaris Fleming, 1828 accepted as Lobatula lobatula (Walker & Jacob, 1798) (type by original designation)
Fontbotia González-Donoso & Linares, 1970 · unaccepted (According to DNA work of...)
According to DNA work of Schweizer et al. 2009
- Species Lobatula alta Saidova, 1975
- Species Lobatula lobatula (Walker & Jacob, 1798)
- Species Lobatula microformis Saidova, 1975
- Species Lobatula novazealandica Saidova, 1975
- Species Lobatula passiva Saidova, 1975
- Species Lobatula ungeriana (d'Orbigny, 1846)
- Species Lobatula vitijazi Saidova, 1975
- Species Lobatula wuellerstorfi (Schwager, 1866)
- Species Lobatula antarctica Saidova, 1975 accepted as Cibicides antarcticus (Saidova, 1975) (According to DNA work of Schweizer et al. 2012)
- Species Lobatula fletcheri (Galloway & Wissler, 1927) accepted as Cibicides fletcheri Galloway & Wissler, 1927 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lobatula mayori (Cushman, 1924) accepted as Cibicides mayori (Cushman, 1924)
- Species Lobatula mckannai (Galloway & Wissler, 1927) accepted as Cibicidoides mckannai (Galloway & Wissler, 1927) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lobatula vulgaris Fleming, 1828 accepted as Lobatula lobatula (Walker & Jacob, 1798) (subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): p. 232 [details]
page(s): p. 232 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Lobatula Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112135 on 2026-10-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): p. 232 [details]
original description (of Fontbotia González-Donoso & Linares, 1970) González-Donoso, J. M.; Linares, D. (1970). Datos sobre los foraminiferos del Tortonense de Alcala Ia Real (Jaen). <em>Revista Española de Micropaleontología.</em> 2: 235-242.
page(s): p. 238 [details]
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. 232 [details]
original description (of Fontbotia González-Donoso & Linares, 1970) González-Donoso, J. M.; Linares, D. (1970). Datos sobre los foraminiferos del Tortonense de Alcala Ia Real (Jaen). <em>Revista Española de Micropaleontología.</em> 2: 235-242.
page(s): p. 238 [details]
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
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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additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
[request]additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
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Diagnosis Test trochospirally coiled, spiral side flat to irregular, sutures thickened, depressed to slightly elevated, oblique, curved backward at the periphery, umbilical side gently convex, sutures depressed and radial around the shallow umbilicus, periphery rounded to angular, carinate, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, coarsely perforate, but keel, apertural lip and area bordering the aperture are imperforate; aperture an interiomarginal, equatorial arch, bordered by a lip and extendimg onto the spiral side beneath a narrow folium. Paleocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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