WoRMS taxon details
Rotorbinella Bandy, 1944
490063 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:490063)
accepted
Genus
Rotorbinella colliculus Bandy, 1944 † (type by original designation)
- Species Rotorbinella antarctica McCulloch, 1977
- Species Rotorbinella barbadosensis Hofker, 1969
- Species Rotorbinella bikiniensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Rotorbinella campanulata (Galloway & Wissler, 1927)
- Species Rotorbinella campanulatiformis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Rotorbinella conica Hofker, 1964
- Species Rotorbinella heterotranslucens McCulloch, 1981
- Species Rotorbinella lepida McCulloch, 1977
- Species Rotorbinella magdalensis (Lankford, 1973)
- Species Rotorbinella miraeformis Hofker, 1980
- Species Rotorbinella rosea (d'Orbigny in Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
- Species Rotorbinella trinidadensis McCulloch, 1981
- Species Rotorbinella turbinata (Cushman & Valentine, 1930)
- Species Rotorbinella umbonata Sellier de Civrieux, 1977
- Species Rotorbinella wenmanensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Rotorbinella bubnanensis McCulloch, 1977 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, possible representative of the family Discorbidae Ehrenberg (Opinion of Consorti et al. 2024))
- Species Rotorbinella basilica Bandy, 1956 accepted as Gavelinopsis basilica (Bandy, 1956)
- Species Rotorbinella lomaensis (Bandy, 1953) accepted as Discorbis lomaensis (Bandy, 1953) accepted as Rosalina lomaensis (Bandy, 1953)
- Species Rotorbinella mira (Cushman, 1922) accepted as Trochulina mira (Cushman, 1922) accepted as Rotorbis auberii (d'Orbigny, 1839) (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Bandy, O. L. (1944). Eocene Foraminifera from Cape Blanco, Oregon. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 18 (4): 366-377.
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Rotorbinella Bandy, 1944. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=490063 on 2026-01-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Bandy, O. L. (1944). Eocene Foraminifera from Cape Blanco, Oregon. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 18 (4): 366-377.
page(s): p. 372 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 372 [details] Available for editors
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redescription
Revets, S. A. (2001). The Genus Rotorbinella Bandy, 1944 and its classification. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 31(4), 315-318., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/0310315 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Hottinger, L. (2014). Paleogene larger Rotaliid Foraminifera from the Western and Central Neotethys. <em>Springer, Berlin.</em> 191 p., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02853-8
note: Transfered to Rotaliinae [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]status source Hottinger, L. (2014). Paleogene larger Rotaliid Foraminifera from the Western and Central Neotethys. <em>Springer, Berlin.</em> 191 p., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02853-8
note: Transfered to Rotaliinae [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
note: Rotorbinella is a subjective junior synonym of Trochulina in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Rotorbinella is a subjective junior synonym of Trochulina in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Umbilicus filled with a single pile in axial position. Folia short, mostly free, unfused. Ventral septal furrows without feathering [details]Original description Test free, small, rotaloid, only last whorl visible ventrally, with definite umbilical plug; spire visible dorsally this side usually much more convex than ventral side; chambers numerous, moderately or closely appressed; dorsal sutures flush, usually limbate, ventral sutures depressed, sometimes channeled, at times with reentrants; wall smooth, very coarsely perforate; aperture a slit at base of septal face not extending onto periphery. Diameter 0.25 to 0.60 mm. Eocene to Recent. [details]
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