WoRMS taxon details
Rotorbinella antarctica McCulloch, 1977
763915 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:763915)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
Taxonomic remark Originally published by McCulloch (1977) as Rotorbinella(?) antarctica
Taxonomic remark Originally published by McCulloch (1977) as Rotorbinella(?) antarctica [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Rotorbinella antarctica McCulloch, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763915 on 2024-04-25
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original description
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
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Original description Test free, calcareous, trochoid, planoconvex, coneshaped; periphery nonlobulate, narrowly carinate, subacute; wall opaque with a matte finish, colorless, prominently perforate; dorsal side convex, evolute, about two whorls of noninflated, sublunate chambers gradually increasing in size; sutures dorsally radial to curved slightly, depressed, limbate, confluent with limbate periphery; ventral side almost flat with last formed chamber larger, somewhat inflated and elevated; chambers tapering into a point centrally covering umbilical area; no umbilical plug or reentrants visible; sutures ventrally radiate, slightly depressed; primary aperture interiomarginal at base of final chamber. Size: .498 mm. dia. x ,276 mm. [details]Taxonomic remark Originally published by McCulloch (1977) as Rotorbinella(?) antarctica [details]