WoRMS taxon details
Nodosinum Hofker, 1930
491735 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:491735)
accepted
Genus
Nodosinella gaussica Rhumbler, 1913 accepted as Nodosinum gaussicum (Rhumbler, 1913) (type by original designation)
- Species Nodosinum gaussicum (Rhumbler, 1913)
- Species Nodosinum moniliforme Shchedrina in Saidova, 1961
- Species Nodosinum verum Saidova, 1975
- Species Nodosinum vitiosum Saidova, 1975
- Species Nodosinum mortenseni (Hofker, 1972) accepted as Pseudonodosinella elongata (Grzybowski, 1898) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
neuter
Hofker, J. (1930), Foraminifera of the Siboga Expedition, Part 2, Families Astrorhizidae, Rhizamminidae, Reophacidae, Anomalinidae, Peneroplidae, in Siboga-Expeditie, Monographie IVa. Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 79-170. , available online at https://archive.org/details/siboga-expeditie_1930_4a
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Nodosinum Hofker, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=491735 on 2026-04-10
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Hofker, J. (1930), Foraminifera of the Siboga Expedition, Part 2, Families Astrorhizidae, Rhizamminidae, Reophacidae, Anomalinidae, Peneroplidae, in Siboga-Expeditie, Monographie IVa. Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 79-170. , available online at https://archive.org/details/siboga-expeditie_1930_4a
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Diagnosis Test large, elongate, uniserial and rectilinear, chambers elongate, subpyriform, expanding sharply in width just above the basal suture; wall coarsely agglutinated, of quartz and other particles in fine organic material, surface roughly finished; aperture terminal, radiate, reflecting the ribs that line the upper part of the chamber interior in the vicinity of the aperture and project into the opening. Holocene; Antarctic at 2,600 m to 3,950 m; Banda Sea, Indonesia at 2,798 m to 4,391 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]