WoRMS taxon details
Kalosha Boltovskoy, 1978
492869 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492869)
accepted
Genus
Kalosha oceanica Boltovskoy, 1978 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Boltovskoy, E. (1978). Estudio bioestratigráfico y paleontologico (Foraminiferos bentónicos) del Cenozoico Superior al este de las Islas Malvinas (DSDP Crucero 36, Sitios 327 y 329). <em>Revista Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ''Bernardino Rivadavia.</em> 8(2): 19-70.
page(s): p. 66 [details]
page(s): p. 66 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Kalosha Boltovskoy, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492869 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Boltovskoy, E. (1978). Estudio bioestratigráfico y paleontologico (Foraminiferos bentónicos) del Cenozoico Superior al este de las Islas Malvinas (DSDP Crucero 36, Sitios 327 y 329). <em>Revista Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ''Bernardino Rivadavia.</em> 8(2): 19-70.
page(s): p. 66 [details]
page(s): p. 66 [details]
Other
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 
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Diagnosis Test small, ovate in outline, up to 0.2 mm in greatest dimension, compressed, oval proloculus followed by planispirally coiled elongate tubular chambers one-half coil in length, forming three to five whorls, chambers widest near their base at the narrower part of the test, curving distally over the end of the test and tapering toward the aperture on its opposite margin, sutures slightly depressed; wall calcareous, imperforate, hyaline, may have some exogenous material on the surface; aperture a narrow slit at the end of the final chamber, near the narrower part of the test. L. Pliocene; S. Atlantic; Pacific; Indian Ocean. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
