Deep-Sea taxon details
Multifidella Loeblich & Tappan, 1961
415657 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415657)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1961). Remarks on the systematics of the Sarkodina (Protozoa), renamed homonyms and new and validated genera. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 74: 213-234., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34571345
page(s): p. 218 [details] Available for editors
page(s): p. 218 [details] Available for editors
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Multifidella Loeblich & Tappan, 1961. 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=415657 on 2026-06-10
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Multifidella Loeblich & Tappan, 1961. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415657 on 2026-06-10
Date
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2009-09-23 14:01:30Z
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original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1961). Remarks on the systematics of the Sarkodina (Protozoa), renamed homonyms and new and validated genera. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 74: 213-234., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34571345
page(s): p. 218 [details] Available for editors
page(s): p. 218 [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, elongate, early portion trochospiral, with four to five chambers per whorl, later triserial, biserial, and finally with a relatively long uniserial stage in the adult; wall finely agglutinated, canaliculate; aperture terminal, cribrate, consisting of elongate slits variously aligned in the center of the depressed apertural face, each slit bordered by a lip. Miocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Caribbean: Trinidad, West Indies. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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