WoRMS taxon details
Tetrataxiella Seiglie, 1964
739146 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739146)
accepted
Genus
Tetrataxiella ayalai Seiglie, 1964 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Seiglie, G. A. (1964). Algunos foraminíferos arenaceos recientes de Venezuela. <em>Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de la Universidad de Oriente.</em> 3(1-2): 5-12., available online at https://iov-udo.com/revista/index.php/boletin57-1/issue/view/13
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Tetrataxiella Seiglie, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739146 on 2025-10-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Seiglie, G. A. (1964). Algunos foraminíferos arenaceos recientes de Venezuela. <em>Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de la Universidad de Oriente.</em> 3(1-2): 5-12., available online at https://iov-udo.com/revista/index.php/boletin57-1/issue/view/13
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Diagnosis Test free, elongate conical, quadriserial, chambers inflated and strongly overlapping, so that final whorl occupies one-half the test length, interior simple; wall agglutinated, surface smoothly finished except for frequent large grains of quartz or shell fragments; aperture a low interiomarginal arch, opening into the umbilicus. Holocene: Caribbean: NE Venezuela. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
