Foraminifera taxon details

Mullinoides McCulloch, 1977

721512  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721512)

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Mullinoides differens McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)

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McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Mullinoides McCulloch, 1977. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721512 on 2024-03-28
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original description McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record 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] 
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Diagnosis Test small, trochospiral, planoconvex, spiral side convex, with about two rapidly enlarging whorls of semilunate chambers and flush curved sutures extending back along the periphery, umbilical side flat to concave, with six wedgelike chambers of the final whorl separated by radial, depressed sutures around the closed umbilicus, an ovate umbilical plate covers each earlier aperture and the umbilical end of the respective chamber, periphery angular, carinate; wall calcareous, hyaline, surface smooth; aperture a high interiomarginal and extraumbilical arch, later covered by the umbilical plate as a new chamber is formed. Holocene; USA: off San Clemente Island, California, at 75 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]