WoRMS taxon details
Plotnikovina Mikhalevich, 1981
492618 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492618)
accepted
Genus
Gaudryina (Siphogaudryina) compressa Cushman, 1935 accepted as Plotnikovina compressa (Cushman, 1935) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Mikhalevich, V.I. 1981. Parallelizm i konvergentsiya v evolyutsii skeletov foraminifer [Parallelism and convergence in the skeletal evolution of foraminifera]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 107: 19-41.
page(s): p. 38 [details]
page(s): p. 38 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Plotnikovina Mikhalevich, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492618 on 2025-04-16
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Nomenclature
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Mikhalevich, V.I. 1981. Parallelizm i konvergentsiya v evolyutsii skeletov foraminifer [Parallelism and convergence in the skeletal evolution of foraminifera]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 107: 19-41.
page(s): p. 38 [details]
page(s): p. 38 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test elongate, with short early triserial and triangular stage and later biserial stage, with flattened to rhomboid section, chambers broad and low, lateral extremities distinctly produced at the chamber angle, an internal vertical partition then isolating a small distal chamberlet, inner partitions of successive chambers approximately in vertical alignment, the tip of the chamberlets commonly broken to leave a small opening at the surface; sutures slightly depressed, straight, at a slight angle from the horizontal; wall finely agglutinated, extremely thin outer wall of the lateral projections formed by the chamberlets, septa and vertical partitions canaliculate; aperture an interiomarginal arch. Holocene; Atlantic; Caribbean; S. Pacific. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
