Foraminifera taxon details
Komokia Tendal & Hessler, 1977
408252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:408252)
accepted
Genus
Komokia multiramosa Tendal & Hessler, 1977 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Tendal, O.S.; Hessler, R.R. (1977). An introduction to the biology and systematics of Komokiacea (Textulariina, Foraminiferida). <em>Galathea Report.</em> 14: 165-194., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268274172
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page(s): p. 178 [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Komokia Tendal & Hessler, 1977. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=408252 on 2024-04-20
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Tendal, O.S.; Hessler, R.R. (1977). An introduction to the biology and systematics of Komokiacea (Textulariina, Foraminiferida). <em>Galathea Report.</em> 14: 165-194., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268274172
page(s): p. 178 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Deepsea) Gooday, A.J., Cedhagen, T., Kamenskaya, O.E., Cornelius, N. (2007) The biodiversity and biogeography of komokiaceans and other enigmatic foraminiferan-like protists in the deep Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II 54, 1691-1719., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.003 [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]
page(s): p. 178 [details] Available for editors
[request] context source (Deepsea) Gooday, A.J., Cedhagen, T., Kamenskaya, O.E., Cornelius, N. (2007) The biodiversity and biogeography of komokiaceans and other enigmatic foraminiferan-like protists in the deep Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II 54, 1691-1719., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.003 [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
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Diagnosis Test arborescent, up to 2 mm across, dichotomously branching at irregular intervals, the branching increasingly rapid toward the periphery, commonly with four to six orders of branching, all branchlets of approximately equal diameter, somewhat crooked but basically radiating; wall with thin inner organic layer and thicker outer agglutinated layer of clay particles, grayish in color, flexible. Holocene; central N. Pacific at 5,588 m to 6,079 m; Caribbean, at 5,220 m to 5,650 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]