Deep-Sea taxon details
Elphidium Montfort, 1808
112162 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112162)
accepted
Genus
- Species Elphidium crispum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Elphidium macellum (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
- Species Elphidium albiumbilicatum (Weiss, 1954) accepted as Cryptoelphidiella paucilocula (Cushman, 1944) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Elphidium asklundi Brotzen, 1943 accepted as Cryptoelphidiella asklundi (Brotzen, 1943) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Elphidium clavatum Cushman, 1930 accepted as Cribroelphidium clavatum (Cushman, 1930) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Elphidium excavatum (Terquem, 1875) accepted as Cribroelphidium excavatum (Terquem, 1875) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Elphidium incertum (Williamson, 1858) accepted as Toddinella incerta (Williamson, 1858) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Elphidium subarcticum Cushman, 1944 accepted as Cribroelphidium subarcticum (Cushman, 1944) accepted as Cryptoelphidiella hallandensis (Brotzen, 1943) (Opinion of Gudina (1969), Fursenko (1979))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
neuter
Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571
page(s): p. 14 [details]
page(s): p. 14 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Elphidium Montfort, 1808. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112162 on 2026-01-02
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Elphidium Montfort, 1808. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112162 on 2026-01-02
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Martinez, Olga
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Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571
page(s): p. 14 [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source 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
additional source Hayward, B.W., Hollis, C.J., Grenfell, H.R. 1997. Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the South-West Pacific and fossil Elphidiidae of New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Monograph 16, 166 p. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hayward, B.W., Holzmann, M., Langer, M.R., Parker, J.H., Tsuchiya, M. (2025). Molecular and morphological taxonomy and biogeography of living Cribroelphidiidae, Elphidiellidae, Elphidiidae, Haynesinidae and related taxa (Foraminifera, Rotalioidea). <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 71: 433-808., available online at https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.71.5.01 [details] Available for editors
page(s): p. 14 [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source 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
additional source Hayward, B.W., Hollis, C.J., Grenfell, H.R. 1997. Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the South-West Pacific and fossil Elphidiidae of New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Monograph 16, 166 p. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hayward, B.W., Holzmann, M., Langer, M.R., Parker, J.H., Tsuchiya, M. (2025). Molecular and morphological taxonomy and biogeography of living Cribroelphidiidae, Elphidiellidae, Elphidiidae, Haynesinidae and related taxa (Foraminifera, Rotalioidea). <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 71: 433-808., available online at https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.71.5.01 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test large, lenticular, planispirally enrolled, involute or partially evolute, biumbonate, may have umbilical plug on each side, seven to twenty chambers in the final whorl, deeply incised sutures form interlocular spaces that communicate with an umbilical spiral canal system, may have vertical umbilical canals leading from the spiral canal to the surface of the umbilical plug, externally ponticuli span the gently curved sutures, and fossettes between the ponticuli open into the intercameral space, internally may have retral processes (small backward extensions from the chamber lumen along the sutures), periphery carinate; wall calcareous, optically radial or less commonly granular, finely perforate, bilamellar, septal flap partly or completely covering previous septa as the new chamber is formed, surface with openings of canal system in the plugs and along the sutures and may have pustules or spiralling striae or ridges; aperture and foramina, a single interiomarginal pore or multiple, and may have additional areal openings. L. Eocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Ecology (keeled species) epifaunal, free; sand, vegetation; herbivore; marine; temperate–warm; S 30–70; 0–50 m; inner shelf; (non-keeled species) infaunal, free; mud, sand; herbivore; S 0–70; brackish–hypersaline marshes and lagoons, inner shelf (upper bathyal, Elphidium excavatum only). [details]
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