Foraminifera taxon details
Coscinospira Ehrenberg, 1839
112063 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112063)
accepted
Genus
Coscinospira hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1839 (type by subsequent designation)
Coscinopira Ehrenberg, 1839 · unaccepted (Incorrect subsequent spelling)
Cribrospirolina Haman, 1972 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Coscinospira elongata Sirel & Özgen-Erdem in Sirel, Özgen-Erdem & Kangal, 2013 †
- Species Coscinospira forskalii Ehrenberg, 1839
- Species Coscinospira georgforsteri Parker & Gischler, 2024
- Species Coscinospira hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1839
- Species Coscinospira prima Schlagintweit, Rashidi & Kohkan, 2020 †
- Species Coscinospira savignyi Ehrenberg, 1839 †
- Species Coscinospira sivasensis Sirel & Özgen-Erdem in Sirel, Özgen-Erdem & Kangal, 2013 †
- Subgenus Coscinospira (Spirolina) Ehrenberg, 1839 accepted as Spirolina Lamarck, 1804
- Species Coscinospira arietina (Batsch, 1791) accepted as Peneroplis arietinus (Batsch, 1791) (Opinion of Forderer et al (2018))
- Species Coscinospira bahrainica Anan, 2026 (unaccepted > unavailable name, Name published in an electronic publication unregistered in ZooBank, invalid for nomenclatural purposes according to the 2012 Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature)
- Species Coscinospira acicularis (Batsch, 1791) represented as Monalysidium aciculare (Batsch, 1791)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
page(s): p. 54, Chart opp. p. 64, p. 75 [details]
page(s): p. 54, Chart opp. p. 64, p. 75 [details]
Diagnosis Test free, spiroline, large, up to 2.2 mm in length, slightly flattened, early stage planispirally enrolled and evolute...
Diagnosis Test free, spiroline, large, up to 2.2 mm in length, slightly flattened, early stage planispirally enrolled and evolute with numerous chambers per whorl, biumbilicate, later uncoiling with up to six inflated rectilinear chambers, sutures radial and straight to slightly arched in the coiled stage, horizontal in the uncoiled part; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface longitudinally finely striate; aperture terminal, cribrate, of numerous rounded pores centered in the terminal face. Holocene; Red Sea; Saudi Arabia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Coscinospira Ehrenberg, 1839. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112063 on 2026-09-09
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2006-09-08 06:50:23Z
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
page(s): p. 54, Chart opp. p. 64, p. 75 [details]
original description (of Cribrospirolina Haman, 1972) Haman, D. (1972). Cribrospirolina, a New Genus of the Family Soritidae. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 18(1): 110-114., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484984
page(s): p. 111 [details] Available for editors
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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 Ehrenberg, C.G. (1840). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. <em>Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> [1838]: 59-147., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29017435
page(s): p. 110, Chart opp. p. 120, p. 131 [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 [request]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
page(s): p. 54, Chart opp. p. 64, p. 75 [details]
original description (of Cribrospirolina Haman, 1972) Haman, D. (1972). Cribrospirolina, a New Genus of the Family Soritidae. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 18(1): 110-114., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484984
page(s): p. 111 [details] Available for editors
[request]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 Ehrenberg, C.G. (1840). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. <em>Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> [1838]: 59-147., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29017435
page(s): p. 110, Chart opp. p. 120, p. 131 [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
[request]additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
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Diagnosis Test free, spiroline, large, up to 2.2 mm in length, slightly flattened, early stage planispirally enrolled and evolute with numerous chambers per whorl, biumbilicate, later uncoiling with up to six inflated rectilinear chambers, sutures radial and straight to slightly arched in the coiled stage, horizontal in the uncoiled part; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface longitudinally finely striate; aperture terminal, cribrate, of numerous rounded pores centered in the terminal face. Holocene; Red Sea; Saudi Arabia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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