WoRMS taxon details
Textulariinae Ehrenberg, 1838
737000 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:737000)
accepted
Subfamily
- Genus Bigenerina d'Orbigny, 1826
- Genus Norvanganina Mikhalevich, 1981
- Genus Sahulia Loeblich & Tappan, 1985
- Genus Tetragonostomina Mikhalevich, 1975
- Genus Textularia Defrance, 1824
- Genus Textella Mikhalevich, 1979 accepted as Textularia Defrance, 1824 (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Genus Textilinita Botvinnik, 1983 accepted as Textularia Defrance, 1824 (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1838). Über dem blossen Auge unsichtbare Kalkthierchen und Kieselthierchen als Hauptbestandtheile der Kreidegebirge. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1838: 192-200., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11050066
page(s): p. 200.; note: Family. [details]
page(s): p. 200.; note: Family. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Textulariinae Ehrenberg, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737000 on 2026-07-18
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Ehrenberg, C. G. (1838). Über dem blossen Auge unsichtbare Kalkthierchen und Kieselthierchen als Hauptbestandtheile der Kreidegebirge. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1838: 192-200., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11050066
page(s): p. 200.; note: Family. [details]
page(s): p. 200.; note: Family. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, aperture interiomarginal, at least in the early stage, may become areal when test is terminally uniserial. Paleocene to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
