WoRMS name details
Verneuilina spiculotesta Cushman, 1935
920517 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:920517)
unaccepted > superseded combination (Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1949))
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Cushman, J. A. (1935). Fourteen new species of Foraminifera. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 91(21)[1947]: 1-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24734064, http://hdl.handle.net/10088/23898 [details] Available for editors 
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Type locality contained in Puerto Rican Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Puerto Rican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Verneuilina spiculotesta Cushman, 1935. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=920517 on 2025-11-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Cushman, J. A. (1935). Fourteen new species of Foraminifera. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 91(21)[1947]: 1-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24734064, http://hdl.handle.net/10088/23898 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Ellis, B. F.; Messina, A. R. (1940-2015). Catalogue of Foraminifera. <em>Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History, New York.</em> [details]
[request]basis of record Ellis, B. F.; Messina, A. R. (1940-2015). Catalogue of Foraminifera. <em>Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History, New York.</em> [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Original description Test elongate, 2 to 2.5 times as long as broad, the early portion irregularly triangular in transverse section, somewhat twisted, triserial throughout, although in the last-formed whorl two chambers make up a very large part of the apertural view, greatest breadth at the apertural end ; chambers distinct, becoming somewhat inflated in the adult; sutures distinct, depressed; wall largely composed of fragments of sponge spicules firmly cemented and forming a rather neatly finished test on the exterior ; aperture elongate, narrow, at the base of the inner margin of the last-formed chamber. Length 0.85-1.20 mm; diameter 0.55-0.65 mm.Holotype.—U.S.N.M. no. 26185; from station 93, latitude 18°38' 00" N., longitude 65°09'30" W. to latitude 18°37'45" N., longitude 65°05'00" W., 350 to 400 fathoms.
This is a unique species in the peculiar shape of the test and the unusual character of the wall. It is rather common in some of the dredgings from the Puerto Rican Deep. [details]
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