WoRMS taxon details
Quadrimorphina Finlay, 1939
465911 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465911)
accepted
Genus
Valvulina allomorphinoides Reuss, 1860 † accepted as Quadrimorphina allomorphinoides (Reuss, 1860) † (type by original designation)
Gyromorphina Marie, 1941 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Species Quadrimorphina laevigata (Phleger & Parker, 1951)
- Species Quadrimorphina rosae Saidova, 1975
- Species Quadrimorphina glabra (Cushman, 1927) accepted as Valvulineria glabra Cushman, 1927
- Species Quadrimorphina pescicula Saidova, 1975 accepted as Quadrimorphina laevigata (Phleger & Parker, 1951) (Subjective junior synonym of Quadrimorphina laevigata in opinion of Hayward et al. (2010))
- Species Quadrimorphina vilardeboana (d'Orbigny, 1839) accepted as Discorbis vilardeboanus (d'Orbigny, 1839)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Quadrimorphina Finlay, 1939. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465911 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Gyromorphina Marie, 1941) 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 [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]
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
[request] original description (of Gyromorphina Marie, 1941) 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 [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
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test ovate in outline, biconvex, low trochospiral coil, three to six slightly elongated chambers in the final whorl, sutures curved back at the periphery on the spiral side, nearly radial around the open umbilicus of the umbilical side, slightly depressed, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, optically granular, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture interiomarginal and umbilical, a low opening covered by a large rounded to triangular lip, with internal toothplate consisting of a partition attached to the previous umbilical flap at an angle to the septal foramen and forming a crest on the inside of the apertural lip. U: Cretaceous (Coniacian) to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
