WoRMS taxon details
Siphotrochammina Saunders, 1957
520838 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520838)
accepted
Genus
Siphotrochammina lobata Saunders, 1957 (type by original designation)
- Species Siphotrochammina lobata Saunders, 1957
- Species Siphotrochammina salvati Vénec-Peyré, 1988
- Species Siphotrochammina elegans Zaninetti, Brönnimann, Beurlen & Moura in Brönnimann, 1986 accepted as Siphotrochammina lobata Saunders, 1957 (unaccepted > nomen nudum, Species only figured in Zaninetti, Brönnimann, Beurlen & Moura (1977 = nomen nudum) Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Brönnimann et al. (1992))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Saunders, J. B. (1957). Trochamminidae and certain Lituolidae (foraminifera) from the Recent brackish-water sediments of Trinidad, British West Indies. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 134: 1-16., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/22940
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Siphotrochammina Saunders, 1957. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520838 on 2025-10-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Saunders, J. B. (1957). Trochamminidae and certain Lituolidae (foraminifera) from the Recent brackish-water sediments of Trinidad, British West Indies. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 134: 1-16., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/22940
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test free, low trochospiral, chambers ovate, increasing gradually in size as added, sutures gently curved, periphery rounded; wall light brown in color, finely and sparsely agglutinated on a proteinaceous base, the early whorl darker brown and with very little agglutinated material; aperture interiomarginal, at the end of a siphonlike lobe projecting from the umbilical margin of the chamber and directed forward, and as the succeeding chamber overlaps the former aperture it remains as an intercameral foramen, opening into the umbilical lobe of the later chamber. Holocene; Caribbean, W. coast of Trinidad. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Ecology Epifaunal, sometimes epiphytic on mangrove roots; brackish; warm, tropical; marsh and mangal. [details]
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