Foraminifera taxon details
Dendritina d'Orbigny, 1826 †
503190 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:503190)
accepted
Genus
Dendritina arbuscula d'Orbigny, 1826 † (type by subsequent designation)
Meneghinia O. Silvestri, 1889 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Neopeneroplis Didkovskiy, 1958 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Pelorus Montfort, 1808 · unaccepted (name suppressed for the purposes...)
name suppressed for the purposes of the Principle of Priority by ICZN Opinion 1570 and placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology
Peneroplis (Dendritina) d'Orbigny, 1839 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Spirolina (Dendritina) Schwager, 1883 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Species Dendritina alworthi McCulloch, 1977
- Species Dendritina ambigua (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
- Species Dendritina arbuscula d'Orbigny, 1826 †
- Species Dendritina culebraensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Dendritina depressa (Lamarck, 1804) †
- Species Dendritina elegans d'Orbigny, 1846 †
- Species Dendritina haueri d'Orbigny, 1846 †
- Species Dendritina hauerina d'Orbigny, 1846 †
- Species Dendritina juleana d'Orbigny, 1846 †
- Species Dendritina laevigata Terquem, 1882 †
- Species Dendritina laevis Costa, 1856 †
- Species Dendritina lajasensis Gordon, 1961 †
- Species Dendritina mariae Serova, 1955 †
- Species Dendritina pacifica McCulloch, 1977
- Species Dendritina preelegans Galloway & Heminway, 1941 †
- Species Dendritina rangi d'Orbigny in Fornasini, 1904
- Species Dendritina sarmatica (Didkovskiy, 1958) †
- Species Dendritina striata Hofker, 1951
- Species Dendritina striatopunctata Hofker, 1951
- Species Dendritina waikikiensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Dendritina zhengae Ujiié in Hatta & Ujiié, 1992
- Subgenus Dendritina (Monalysidium) Hofker, 1951 accepted as Monalysidium Chapman, 1900 (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, nomen translatum)
- Species Dendritina antillarum d'Orbigny, 1826 accepted as Dendritina antillarum (d'Orbigny, 1839) accepted as Peneroplis antillarum d'Orbigny, 1839 (Nomen nudum)
- Species Dendritina antillarum (d'Orbigny, 1839) accepted as Peneroplis antillarum d'Orbigny, 1839 (Opinion of Forderer et al (2018))
- Species Dendritina ellipticus (d'Orbigny, 1904) accepted as Peneroplis ellipticus d'Orbigny, 1839 (Incorrect date [P. ellipticus figure was published in 1904 but the description was validated earlier])
- Species Dendritina pacifica Cheng & Zheng, 1978 accepted as Dendritina zhengae Ujiié in Hatta & Ujiié, 1992 (unaccepted > junior homonym, Primary junior homonym of Dendritina pacifica McCulloch, 1977)
- Species Dendritina rangii d'Orbigny, 1826 accepted as Dendritina rangi d'Orbigny in Fornasini, 1904 (Nomen nudum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 7: 96-128 [96-120 by Férussac]; (2): 129-169, fold-out table; (3): 245-314, pls. 10-17 [this last part and its plates on Foraminifera only]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959
page(s): p. 285 [details]
page(s): p. 285 [details]
Diagnosis Test planispirally enrolled and involute, numerous chambers per whorl, sutures radial, may be slightly arcuate; wall...
Nomenclature Name (gender: feminine) placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (1990) Opinion 1570
Diagnosis Test planispirally enrolled and involute, numerous chambers per whorl, sutures radial, may be slightly arcuate; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface with numerous striae aligned with the direction of coiling; aperture in the adult areal, dendritic, and complexly branched. M. Eocene (Lutetian) to Holocene; Europe; West Indies; Bermuda. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Nomenclature Name (gender: feminine) placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (1990) Opinion 1570
Nomenclature Name (gender: feminine) placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (1990) Opinion 1570 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Dendritina d'Orbigny, 1826 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=503190 on 2026-10-09
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Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 7: 96-128 [96-120 by Férussac]; (2): 129-169, fold-out table; (3): 245-314, pls. 10-17 [this last part and its plates on Foraminifera only]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959
page(s): p. 285 [details]
original description (of Neopeneroplis Didkovskiy, 1958 †) Didkovskiy, V. Y. (1958). Новий представник пенероплід Neopeneroplis sarmaticus gen. et sp. nov. з середньосарматських відкладів України та Молдавії - New representative of the Peneroplids Neopeneroplis sarmaticus gen. et sp. nov. from the middle Sarmatian deposits of Ukraine and Moldavia. <em>Доповіді Академії наук української РСР - Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.</em> 11: 1251-1254.
page(s): p. 1252 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Pelorus Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 [details]
original description (of Spirolina (Dendritina) Schwager, 1883) Schwager, C. (1883). Die Foraminiferen aus den Eocaenablagerungen der libyschen Wüste und Aegyptens. <em>Palaeontographica.</em> 30: 79-153., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35397274 [details]
original description (of Meneghinia O. Silvestri, 1889) Silvestri, O. (1889). Sopra due nuovi generi di Rizopodi (Foraminiferi) appartenienti al Pliocene inferiore d'Italia,. <em>Bollettino Società dei Microscopisti, Acireale.</em> 1: 51-59.
page(s): p. 53 [details]
additional source International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1990). Opinion 1570: <i>Dendritina</i> d'Orbigny, 1826 (Foraminiferida): conserved. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 47(1): 59., available online at https://biostor.org/reference/5139 [details] Available for editors
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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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page(s): p. 285 [details]
original description (of Neopeneroplis Didkovskiy, 1958 †) Didkovskiy, V. Y. (1958). Новий представник пенероплід Neopeneroplis sarmaticus gen. et sp. nov. з середньосарматських відкладів України та Молдавії - New representative of the Peneroplids Neopeneroplis sarmaticus gen. et sp. nov. from the middle Sarmatian deposits of Ukraine and Moldavia. <em>Доповіді Академії наук української РСР - Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.</em> 11: 1251-1254.
page(s): p. 1252 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Pelorus Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 [details]
original description (of Spirolina (Dendritina) Schwager, 1883) Schwager, C. (1883). Die Foraminiferen aus den Eocaenablagerungen der libyschen Wüste und Aegyptens. <em>Palaeontographica.</em> 30: 79-153., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35397274 [details]
original description (of Meneghinia O. Silvestri, 1889) Silvestri, O. (1889). Sopra due nuovi generi di Rizopodi (Foraminiferi) appartenienti al Pliocene inferiore d'Italia,. <em>Bollettino Società dei Microscopisti, Acireale.</em> 1: 51-59.
page(s): p. 53 [details]
additional source International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1990). Opinion 1570: <i>Dendritina</i> d'Orbigny, 1826 (Foraminiferida): conserved. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 47(1): 59., available online at https://biostor.org/reference/5139 [details] Available for editors
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 planispirally enrolled and involute, numerous chambers per whorl, sutures radial, may be slightly arcuate; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface with numerous striae aligned with the direction of coiling; aperture in the adult areal, dendritic, and complexly branched. M. Eocene (Lutetian) to Holocene; Europe; West Indies; Bermuda. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Nomenclature Name (gender: feminine) placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (1990) Opinion 1570 [details]