World Register of Deep-Sea species - Globigerinoides Cushman, 1927

Deep-Sea taxon details

Globigerinoides Cushman, 1927

To Mikrotax (Globigerinoides Cushman 1927)

AphiaID

112199 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112199)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Globigerininae Carpenter et al., 1862

Original name

Globigerinoides Cushman, 1927

Direct children (8)

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Species Globigerinoides conglobatus (Brady, 1879)
Species Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839)
Species Globigerinoides tenellus Parker, 1958
Species Globigerinoides bispherica Todd, 1954 † accepted as Trilobatus bisphericus (Todd, 1954) † (Opinion of Mikrotax http://mikrotax.org/pforams/)
Species Globigerinoides rubra (d'Orbigny, 1839) accepted as Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny, 1839) (genus is masculine)
Species Globigerinoides sacculifer (Brady, 1877) accepted as Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877)
Species Globigerinoides sacculifera (Brady, 1877) accepted as Trilobatus sacculifer (Brady, 1877) (Opinion of Mikrotax http://mikrotax.org/pforams/)
Species Globigerinoides triloba (Reuss, 1850) accepted as Trilobatus trilobus (Reuss, 1850) (Subjective junior synonym of G. quadrilobata in opinion of André et al. (2013). but retained as separate for fossil specimens by Spezzaferi et al (2015).)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://business.cushmanfoundation.org/ap/CloudFile/Download/P7DeWv4L
page(s): p. 87; note: Type species Globigerinoides rubra. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Globigerinoides Cushman, 1927. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112199 on 2026-01-16

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Globigerinoides Cushman, 1927. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112199 on 2026-01-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gross, Onno

2006-09-12 06:54:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-09-20 10:09:24Z

checked

Hayward, Bruce W.

2014-04-27 09:35:56Z

changed

Hayward, Bruce W.

2017-02-06 21:55:11Z

changed

Le Coze, François

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original description Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://business.cushmanfoundation.org/ap/CloudFile/Download/P7DeWv4L
page(s): p. 87; note: Type species Globigerinoides rubra. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , 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

ecology source Leles, S. G.; Mitra, A.; Flynn, K. J.; Stoecker, D. K.; Hansen, P. J.; Calbet, A.; McManus, G. B.; Sanders, R. W.; Caron, D. A.; Not, F.; Hallegraeff, G. M.; Pitta, P.; Raven, J. A.; Johnson, M. D.; Glibert, P. M.; Våge, S. (2017). Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284(1860): 20170664., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0664 [details] Available for editors

Present

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Diagnosis Test with globular to ovate rapidly enlarging discrete chambers in a low to high trochospiral coil, few chambers per whorl, sutures radial, depressed, umbilicus open, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, coarsely perforate and spinose, pores at the base of shallow pits, the smooth spines circular in section and set on slightly raised spine bases; primary aperture a large interiomarginal umbilical arch, one or more secondary sutural openings present on the spiral side at the intersection of the spiral and radial sutures. Uppermost Oligocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]

Grammatical gender ICZN article 30.1.4.4. stipulates: "A compound genus-group name ending in the suffix -ites, -oides, -ides, -odes, or -istes is to be treated as masculine unless its author, when establishing the name, stated that it had another gender or treated it as such by combining it with an adjectival species-group name in another gender form."

Cushman (1917) did not give any indication about the gender of Globigerinoides but quoted the type species as G. rubra.
He seems to have constantly used Globigerinoides as a feminine genus in his publications.

Authors describing new species and subspecies have variously considered Globigerinoides to be a feminine or a masculine genus.
Nevertheless the recent publications give at a great majority the genus as masculine.

Considering the confusion about the grammatical gender, the WoRMS editors are applying the general ICZN rule and consider Globigerinoides to be a masculine genus. [details]

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