WoRMS taxon details
Epistomaroides Uchio, 1952
484691 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:484691)
accepted
Genus
Discorbina turbo var. polystomelloides Parker & Jones, 1865 accepted as Epistomaroides polystomelloides (Parker & Jones, 1865) (type by original designation)
- Species Epistomaroides fordererae Hayward & Langer in Hayward et al., 2025
- Species Epistomaroides polystomelloides (Parker & Jones, 1865)
- Species Epistomaroides punctulatus (d'Orbigny, 1826)
- Species Epistomaroides yabei (Asano, 1936)
- Species Epistomaroides atlantis (Bermúdez, 1939) accepted as Anomalina atlantis Bermúdez, 1939 (unaccepted > superseded combination, Lacks all the characteristic features of Epistomaroides.)
- Species Epistomaroides coronata (Parker & Jones, 1865) accepted as Discanomalina coronata (Parker & Jones, 1865)
- Species Epistomaroides flintii (Cushman, 1931) accepted as Anomalina flintii Cushman, 1931
- Species Epistomaroides puietaensis (McCulloch, 1977) accepted as Epistomaria puietaensis McCulloch, 1977 (unaccepted > superseded combination, Lacks all the characteristic features of Epistomaroides.)
- Species Epistomaroides pulpitoensis (McCulloch, 1977) accepted as Epistomaria pulpitoensis McCulloch, 1977 (unaccepted > superseded combination, Lacks all the characteristic features of Epistomaroides.)
- Species Epistomaroides punctatus (Said, 1949) accepted as Epistomaroides punctulatus (d'Orbigny, 1826) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Epistomaroides rimosa (Parker & Jones, 1862) accepted as Epistomaria rimosa (Parker & Jones in Carpenter, 1862) † accepted as Epistomaria semimarginata (d'Orbigny, 1850) † (Type species of accepted Epistomaria genus)
- Species Epistomaroides semipunctata (Bailey, 1851) accepted as Discanomalina semipunctata (Bailey, 1851)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Epistomaroides Uchio, 1952. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=484691 on 2026-09-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Uchio, T. (1952). Foraminiferal assemblage from Hachijo Island, Tokyo Prefecture, with descriptions of some new genera and species. <em>Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography.</em> 22:145-159.
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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 low trochospiral and biconvex, all chambers of the two whorls visible from the spiral side, only the nine or ten of the final whorl visible on the umbilicate opposite side where supplementary chamberlets formed by a transverse internal partition result in a stellate appearance, sutures deeply incised, bridged by shell material between the multiple sutural openings, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, thin, coarsely perforate; primary aperture a low interiomarginal arch extending from the peripheral margin to the umbilicus, small secondary areal opening at the suture between primary and supplementary chambers in the apertural face, and multiple sutural openings present on both sides of the test. Holocene; Pacific Ocean; Indian Ocean; Mediterranean Sea; Red Sea. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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