WoRMS taxon details
Colonimilesia McCulloch, 1977
465912 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465912)
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Genus
Colonimilesia obscura McCulloch, 1977 accepted as Colonimilesia coronata (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Colonimilesia McCulloch, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465912 on 2024-04-16
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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]
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] 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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Diagnosis Test circular in outline, planoconvex, trochospiral, spiral side with one or two partially involute whorls of rapidly enlarging chambers produced centrally to a hyaline point, the tip commonly broken in later chambers to leave a small rounded and elevated opening at the center of each chamber, only the six to seven chambers of the final whorl visible on the flat, involute umbilical side, each having a triangular umbilical flap bordered proximally by a slit, sutures straight and radial on both sides, slightly depressed, periphery carinate; wall calcareous, thin, hyaline, finely perforate except for the imperforate flangelike keel; aperture interiomarginal at both sides of the triangular umbilical flap, the posterior opening curving to a terminal loop, those of earlier chambers of the final whorl remaining as looplike openings. Holocene, at 20 m to 40 m; Philippines. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
