Foraminifera taxon details

Rotaliammina Cushman, 1924

415938  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415938)

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Genus
Rotaliammina mayori Cushman, 1924 (type by original designation)
Polysiphotrocha Seiglie, 1964 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)  
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)

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Cushman, J. A. (1924). Samoan foraminifera. <em>Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Marine Biology.</em> 21(342): 1-75.
page(s): p. 11 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Type locality contained in Samoa Islands  
type locality contained in Samoa Islands [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Rotaliammina Cushman, 1924. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415938 on 2024-03-28
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2009-09-23 14:01:30Z
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2010-07-21 07:48:58Z
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original description Cushman, J. A. (1924). Samoan foraminifera. <em>Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Marine Biology.</em> 21(342): 1-75.
page(s): p. 11 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Polysiphotrocha Seiglie, 1964) Seiglie, G. A. (1964). New and rare foraminifers from Los Testigos reefs, Venezuela. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 4(4): 497-512.
page(s): p. 500 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Diagnosis Test trochospirally enrolled, attached by the umbilical side, and may be surrounded by a fine mud "puffermasse," chambers numerous, increasing gradually in size throughout the approximately three whorls, sutures curving back at the periphery, more oblique on spiral than umbilical side, chambers with umbilical extension on the umbilical side; wall agglutinated, thin, flexible; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical, terminal on the produced end of the chambers and facing the umbilicus. Holocene; Pacific, Marshall Islands; Atlantic, Brazilian shelf; Caribbean, off Venezuela; St. Croix. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]