WoRMS taxon details
Enantiodentalina Marie, 1941
465882 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465882)
accepted
Genus
Enantiodentalina communis Marie, 1941 † (type by original designation)
Paradentalina Uchio, 1960 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Enantiodentalina abyssorum Saidova, 1975
- Species Enantiodentalina ballenaensis (McCulloch, 1977)
- Species Enantiodentalina basitorta (Cushman, 1938)
- Species Enantiodentalina caribbeana (Hofker, 1976)
- Species Enantiodentalina caudata (d'Orbigny, 1852)
- Species Enantiodentalina muraii Uchio, 1953
- Species Enantiodentalina obliqua (d'Orbigny, 1826)
- Species Enantiodentalina timorensis Loeblich & Tappan, 1994
- Species Enantiodentalina communis (d'Orbigny, 1826) accepted as Laevidentalina communis (d'Orbigny, 1826) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Marie, P. (1941). Les Foraminifères de la craie à Belemnitella mucronata du Bassin de Paris. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Nouvelle Série.</em> 12: 1-296., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MEMMN_S000_1941_T012_N001_1
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Note Loeblich and Tappan (1986): "As Marie...
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Type species Loeblich and Tappan (1986): "As Marie described the genus on the basis of the Cretaceous species at hand, and not on the Recent type of D. communis d'Orbigny = D. recta (Montagu), the genus Enantiodentalina was based on a deliberately misapplied name for the type species; hence, following ICZN Art. 70 (c), Enantiodentalina is herein recognized with E. communis Marie (non Nodosaria (Den- taline) communis d'Orbigny) as type species." [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Enantiodentalina Marie, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465882 on 2026-08-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Marie, P. (1941). Les Foraminifères de la craie à Belemnitella mucronata du Bassin de Paris. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Nouvelle Série.</em> 12: 1-296., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MEMMN_S000_1941_T012_N001_1
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original description (of Paradentalina Uchio, 1960) Uchio, T. (1960). Ecology of living benthonic foraminifera from the San Diego, California, area. <em>Special Publications Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 5: 1-72., available online at https://business.cushmanfoundation.org/ap/CloudFile/Download/rZ1Jvk6L, https://archive.org/details/scripps-contributions_1960/page/176
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[request]original description (of Paradentalina Uchio, 1960) Uchio, T. (1960). Ecology of living benthonic foraminifera from the San Diego, California, area. <em>Special Publications Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 5: 1-72., available online at https://business.cushmanfoundation.org/ap/CloudFile/Download/rZ1Jvk6L, https://archive.org/details/scripps-contributions_1960/page/176
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[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
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
note: Status of the type species. [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Status of the type species. [details] Available for editors
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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]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test elongate, subcylindrical, straight or slightly arcuate, early chambers biserial, alternation clearly evident on the dorsal edge but less clear on the ventral edge, later uniserial, with straight oblique sutures; wall calcareous, perforate, radial, surface smooth; aperture terminal on the produced dorsal margin of the test. U. Cretaceous (Campanian) to Holocene; Europe; USSR; Japan; Caribbean; USA. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Type species Loeblich and Tappan (1986): "As Marie described the genus on the basis of the Cretaceous species at hand, and not on the Recent type of D. communis d'Orbigny = D. recta (Montagu), the genus Enantiodentalina was based on a deliberately misapplied name for the type species; hence, following ICZN Art. 70 (c), Enantiodentalina is herein recognized with E. communis Marie (non Nodosaria (Den- taline) communis d'Orbigny) as type species." [details]
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