WoRMS taxon details
Tritaxilina Cushman, 1911
480205 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:480205)
accepted
Genus
Clavulina caperata (Brady, 1881) accepted as Tritaxilina caperata (Brady, 1881) (type by original designation)
Clavulinella Schubert, 1921 · unaccepted (Objective junior synonym,...)
Objective junior synonym, Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Tritaxilina almadenensis Cushman & Todd, 1948 †
- Species Tritaxilina balearica Colom, 1945 †
- Species Tritaxilina bermudezi Colom, 1954 †
- Species Tritaxilina caperata (Brady, 1881)
- Species Tritaxilina colei Cushman & Siegfus, 1935 †
- Species Tritaxilina hantkeni Cushman, 1936 †
- Species Tritaxilina languida Finlay, 1939 †
- Species Tritaxilina maxima Salvatori, 1955 †
- Species Tritaxilina mexicana Cushman, 1925 †
- Species Tritaxilina pentagonalis Montagne, 1941 †
- Species Tritaxilina pinarensis Bermúdez, 1937 †
- Species Tritaxilina pleionensis Cushman, 1936 †
- Species Tritaxilina polygonalis Marie, 1941 †
- Species Tritaxilina pupa (Gümbel, 1870) †
- Species Tritaxilina suturanodosa LeRoy, 1944 †
- Species Tritaxilina suturata Bermúdez, 1949 †
- Species Tritaxilina yasicaensis Bermúdez, 1949 †
- Species Tritaxilina zelandica Finlay, 1939 †
- Species Tritaxilina atlantica Cushman, 1922 accepted as Tritaxilina caperata (Brady, 1881) (Opinion of Jones (1994))
- Species Tritaxilina cubensis Cushman & Bermúdez, 1937 † accepted as Dorothia cubensis (Cushman & Bermúdez, 1937) † (Opinion of Dailey (1983))
- Species Tritaxilina laevigata Marie, 1941 † accepted as Marssonella laevigata (Marie, 1941) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, Opinion of Voloshina (1980))
- Species Tritaxilina ozsvarti Anan, 2024 † (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)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cushman, J. A. (1911). A monograph of the Foraminifera of the North Pacific Ocean. Part II. Textulariidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 71(2): 1-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7878502 [details] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Tritaxilina Cushman, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=480205 on 2025-06-16
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Nomenclature
original description
Cushman, J. A. (1911). A monograph of the Foraminifera of the North Pacific Ocean. Part II. Textulariidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 71(2): 1-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7878502 [details]
original description (of Clavulinella Schubert, 1921) Schubert, R. (1921). Palaeontologische Daten zur Stammesgeschichte der Protozoen. <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift.</em> 3(1): 129-188., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03190414
page(s): p. 181 [details]
original description (of Clavulinella Schubert, 1921) Schubert, R. (1921). Palaeontologische Daten zur Stammesgeschichte der Protozoen. <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift.</em> 3(1): 129-188., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03190414
page(s): p. 181 [details]
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Diagnosis Test free, elongate, early stage in high trochospiral coil of up to five chambers per whorl, number of chambers per whorl later reduced and finally uniserial, chambers subdivided internally by up to fourteen vertical radial exoskeletal beams; wall thick, agglutinated, canaliculate; aperture interiomarginal in the early stage, later terminal, and rounded, radiate, or multiple, consisting of a few slitlike openings. Eocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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