Deep-Sea taxon details
Quadrimorphina Finlay, 1939
465911 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465911)
accepted
Genus
- Species Quadrimorphina laevigata (Phleger & Parker, 1951)
- Species Quadrimorphina pescicula Saidova, 1975 accepted as Quadrimorphina laevigata (Phleger & Parker, 1951) (Subjective junior synonym of Quadrimorphina laevigata in opinion of Hayward et al. (2010))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Quadrimorphina Finlay, 1939. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465911 on 2024-04-24
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Quadrimorphina Finlay, 1939. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465911 on 2024-04-24
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original description
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 3. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 69: 309-329., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_69/rsnz_69_03_003140.html
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
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
page(s): p. 325 [details] Available for editors
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
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test ovate in outline, biconvex, low trochospiral coil, three to six slightly elongated chambers in the final whorl, sutures curved back at the periphery on the spiral side, nearly radial around the open umbilicus of the umbilical side, slightly depressed, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, optically granular, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture interiomarginal and umbilical, a low opening covered by a large rounded to triangular lip, with internal toothplate consisting of a partition attached to the previous umbilical flap at an angle to the septal foramen and forming a crest on the inside of the apertural lip. U: Cretaceous (Coniacian) to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
