Foraminifera taxon details
Obliquilingulina Zheng, 1979
509296 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509296)
accepted
Genus
Obliquilingulina oblonga Zheng, 1979 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Zheng, S.-Y. (1979). The Recent foraminifera of the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. II. <em>Studia marina sinica.</em> 15: 101-232.
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Type locality contained in Xisha Islands
type locality contained in Xisha Islands [details]
Diagnosis Test of moderate size, up to 0.34 mm in length, elongate, sides nearly parallel, slightly compressed and elliptical in...
Diagnosis Test of moderate size, up to 0.34 mm in length, elongate, sides nearly parallel, slightly compressed and elliptical in section, chambers few, large, biserially arranged but tending to become uniserial in the adult, sutures oblique, depressed; wall calcareous, thin, translucent, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture terminal, an elongate to ovate slit, provided with a long straight entosolenian tube. Holocene; China: Xisha Islands, at 6 m depth. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Obliquilingulina Zheng, 1979. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509296 on 2026-05-12
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original description
Zheng, S.-Y. (1979). The Recent foraminifera of the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. II. <em>Studia marina sinica.</em> 15: 101-232.
page(s): p. 146, 212 [details] Available for editors [request]
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. 146, 212 [details] Available for editors
[request]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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test of moderate size, up to 0.34 mm in length, elongate, sides nearly parallel, slightly compressed and elliptical in section, chambers few, large, biserially arranged but tending to become uniserial in the adult, sutures oblique, depressed; wall calcareous, thin, translucent, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture terminal, an elongate to ovate slit, provided with a long straight entosolenian tube. Holocene; China: Xisha Islands, at 6 m depth. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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