Foraminifera name details
Awhea Vella, 1963 †
715896 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:715896)
unaccepted
Genus
Nodosaria sinalata Finlay, 1940 † accepted as Staffia tosta (Schwager, 1866) † (type by original designation)
- Species Awhea africana 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
fossil only
feminine
Vella, P. (1963). Some Foraminifera from the Upper Miocene and Pliocene of Wairarapa, New Zealand. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Geology).</em> 2(1): 1-14., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19630220.2.2 [details] Available for editors 
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Diagnosis Test narrow, elongate, up to 2.2 mm in length, uniserial, rectilinear, with large elongate, oval, and apiculate proloculus...
Diagnosis Test narrow, elongate, up to 2.2 mm in length, uniserial, rectilinear, with large elongate, oval, and apiculate proloculus followed by narrow and elongate subcylindrical chambers, sutures flush or slightly constricted, horizontal; wall calcareous, surface ornamented with about eight longitudinal ribs that may be slightly twisted about the vertical axis; aperture not described, probably terminal. U. Miocene to Pliocene; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Awhea Vella, 1963 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=715896 on 2026-01-21
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Vella, P. (1963). Some Foraminifera from the Upper Miocene and Pliocene of Wairarapa, New Zealand. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Geology).</em> 2(1): 1-14., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19630220.2.2 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Hayward, B.W., Kawagata, S., Sabaa, A.T., Grenfell, H.R., van Kerckhoven, L., Johnson, K., and Thomas, E., 2012. The last global extinction (Mid-Pleistocene) of deep-sea benthic foraminifera (Chrysalogoniidae, Ellipsoidinidae, Glandulonodosariidae, Plectofrondiculariidae, Pleursostomellidae, Stilostomellidae), their Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic history and taxonomy: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication, v. 43, p. 408., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256078664 [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]
[request]basis of record Hayward, B.W., Kawagata, S., Sabaa, A.T., Grenfell, H.R., van Kerckhoven, L., Johnson, K., and Thomas, E., 2012. The last global extinction (Mid-Pleistocene) of deep-sea benthic foraminifera (Chrysalogoniidae, Ellipsoidinidae, Glandulonodosariidae, Plectofrondiculariidae, Pleursostomellidae, Stilostomellidae), their Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic history and taxonomy: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication, v. 43, p. 408., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256078664 [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 narrow, elongate, up to 2.2 mm in length, uniserial, rectilinear, with large elongate, oval, and apiculate proloculus followed by narrow and elongate subcylindrical chambers, sutures flush or slightly constricted, horizontal; wall calcareous, surface ornamented with about eight longitudinal ribs that may be slightly twisted about the vertical axis; aperture not described, probably terminal. U. Miocene to Pliocene; New Zealand. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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