Foraminifera taxon details
Ophthalmina Rhumbler, 1936
520793 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520793)
accepted
Genus
Ophthalmina kilianensis Rhumbler, 1936 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Diagnosis Test discoidal, sides flattened, periphery rounded, globular proloculus followed by closely appressed nonseptate...
Diagnosis Test discoidal, sides flattened, periphery rounded, globular proloculus followed by closely appressed nonseptate cornuspirine planispiral coil and then by two rapidly enlarging chambers per whorl; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture simple, at the open end of the final chamber. Holocene; N. Germany. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Ophthalmina Rhumbler, 1936. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520793 on 2026-09-18
Date
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original description
Rhumbler, L. (1936). Foraminiferen der Kieler Bucht, gesammelt durch A. Remane, II. Teil. (Ammodisculinidae bis einschl. Textulinidae.). <em>Kieler Meeresforschungen.</em> 1: 179-242.
page(s): p. 217 [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 [request]
page(s): p. 217 [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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Diagnosis Test discoidal, sides flattened, periphery rounded, globular proloculus followed by closely appressed nonseptate cornuspirine planispiral coil and then by two rapidly enlarging chambers per whorl; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture simple, at the open end of the final chamber. Holocene; N. Germany. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
From editor or global species database
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