WoRMS taxon details
Orbulininae Schultze, 1854
721002 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721002)
accepted
Subfamily
- Genus Orbulina d'Orbigny, 1839
- Genus Biorbulina Blow, 1956 accepted as Orbulina d'Orbigny, 1839 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, Opinion of Saito et al. (1981), Brummer and Kucera (2022))
- Genus Coscinosphaera Stuart, 1866 accepted as Orbulina d'Orbigny, 1839 (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987))
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Schultze, M. J. S. (1854). Über den Organismus der Polythalamien (Foraminiferen), nebst Bemerkungen über die Rhizopoden im allgemeinen. <em>Ingelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-68., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=o7rk00_xueQC [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Orbulininae Schultze, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721002 on 2025-11-18
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Schultze, M. J. S. (1854). Über den Organismus der Polythalamien (Foraminiferen), nebst Bemerkungen über die Rhizopoden im allgemeinen. <em>Ingelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-68., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=o7rk00_xueQC [details]
basis of record 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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basis of record 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 Final chamber strongly enveloping and may enclose most or all of early formed part of test. L. Miocene (Burdigalian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
