Foraminifera name details

Awhea Vella, 1963 †

715896  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:715896)

 unaccepted
Genus
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 (Geol).</em> 2(1): 1-14., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19630220.2.2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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 2024-04-23
Date
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2013-01-17 08:23:32Z
created
2013-03-08 15:09:52Z
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2017-12-19 10:27:41Z
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original description Vella, P. (1963). Some Foraminifera from the Upper Miocene and Pliocene of Wairarapa, New Zealand. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Geol).</em> 2(1): 1-14., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19630220.2.2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [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  PDF available [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  PDF available [request] 
From editor or global species database
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]