Foraminifera taxon details

Globobulimina affinis (d'Orbigny, 1839)

113060  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:113060)

accepted
Species
Bulimina affinis d'Orbigny, 1839 · unaccepted (Opinion of Sgarrella and...)  
Opinion of Sgarrella and Moncharmont Zei (1993)
Praeglobobulimina affinis (d'Orbigny, 1839) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Bulimina affinis d'Orbigny, 1839) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1839). Foraminifères, in de la Sagra R., Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba. <em>A. Bertrand.</em> 1-224., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=KpVeAAAAcAAJ&pg
page(s): p. 105 pl. 2 fig. 25-26 [details] 
Type locality contained in Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Globobulimina affinis (d'Orbigny, 1839). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=113060 on 2025-10-22
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original description (of Bulimina affinis d'Orbigny, 1839) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1839). Foraminifères, in de la Sagra R., Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba. <em>A. Bertrand.</em> 1-224., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=KpVeAAAAcAAJ&pg
page(s): p. 105 pl. 2 fig. 25-26 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

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 Sen Gupta, B. K.; Smith, L. E.; Machain-Castillo, M. L. (2009). Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. <em>Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.</em> 87-129. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

new combination reference Sgarrella, F.; Moncharmont Zei, M. (1993). Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Naples (Italy): systematics and autoecology. <em>Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana.</em> 32(2): 145-264. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): p. 212, pl. 15, figs. 8, 9 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Ecology Infaunal; tolerant of degraded organic matter and feeding off associated bacteria (Schönfeld, 2001; Fontanier et al., 2002); tolerates dysoxia (Schönfeld, 1997); abundant under oxic conditions at the sediment surface (Timm, 1992); high organic flux – does not live where the flux is <3.5 g C m-2 y-1 (Schönfeld, 1997). [details]
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