Foraminifera taxon details
Zellia Kahler & Kahler, 1937 †
721864 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721864)
accepted
Genus
Pseudoschwagerina (Zellia) heritschi Kahler & Kahler, 1937 † accepted as Zellia heritschi (Kahler & Kahler, 1937) † (type by original designation)
Pseudoschwagerina (Zellia) Kahler & Kahler, 1937 † · unaccepted (Opinion of Morikawa (1955) Nomen...)
Opinion of Morikawa (1955) Nomen translatum
- Species Zellia afghanica Leven, 1997 †
- Species Zellia amedaei (Deprat, 1915) †
- Species Zellia bianpingensis Zhang & Dong in Xiao et al., 1986 †
- Species Zellia chengkungensis (Sheng, 1949) †
- Species Zellia colaniae (Kahler & Kahler, 1937) †
- Species Zellia concentrica Xie, 1982 †
- Species Zellia crassialveola Chang, 1963 †
- Species Zellia depressa Zhang, Rui, Wang & Li, 1988 †
- Species Zellia elliptica Zhou & Yang, 1996 †
- Species Zellia fornula Da in Da & Sun, 1983 †
- Species Zellia galatea (Ciry, 1943) †
- Species Zellia heritschi (Kahler & Kahler, 1937) †
- Species Zellia kusjapkulovi (Shcherbovich, 1949) †
- Species Zellia longyinica Xia, 1995 †
- Species Zellia magnaesphaerae (Colani, 1924) †
- Species Zellia media (Kahler & Kahler, 1937) †
- Species Zellia mira (Kahler & Kahler, 1937) †
- Species Zellia montipara Xie, 1982 †
- Species Zellia nunosei (Hanzawa, 1939) †
- Species Zellia ovata Sheng & Sun, 1975 †
- Species Zellia praeheritschi Forke, 2002 †
- Species Zellia robusta Forke, 2002 †
- Species Zellia subsphaerica Sun in Ding et al., 1987 †
- Species Zellia xinjiangensis Sun in Da & Sun, 1983 †
- Species Zellia ziyunica Zhang, Rui, Wang & Li, 1988 †
- Species Zellia darvasica Kalmykova, 1960 † (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Zellia elatior (Kahler & Kahler, 1937) † accepted as Eozellia elatior (Kahler & Kahler, 1937) †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
(of Pseudoschwagerina (Zellia) Kahler & Kahler, 1937 †) Kahler, F.; Kahler, G. (1937). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fusuliniden der Ostalpen: Die Pseudoschwagerinen der Grenzlandbänke und des oberen Schwagerinenkalkes. <em>Palaeontographica.</em> 87: 1-44.
page(s): p. 20 [details]
page(s): p. 20 [details]
Description Description: Test large, inflated fusiform to subspherical. Poles rounded to slightly umbilicated. Proloculus spherical...
Diagnosis Test robust, globular to ovoid, about 5 mm in length, early whorls tightly coiled with elongate axis resulting in fusiform...
Description Description: Test large, inflated fusiform to subspherical. Poles rounded to slightly umbilicated. Proloculus spherical relatively large. Septa unfolded to faintly folded, often with numerous septal pores. Juvenarium poorly developed with only one or two volutions more tightly coiled. Wall and septa thick for a pseudoschwagerinin. Chomata faint and low. Aperture terminal, basal, simple.
Occurrence: Sakmarian–Artinskian; Carnic Alps, Slovenia, southern Urals, Turkey, northern Afghanistan, Pamirs, Fergana, North China, Tarim, South China, Laos, Vietnam and Japan (Liu et al., 1978; Leven et al., 1992; Lys, 1994; Rauzer-Chernousova et al., 1996; Vachard, unpublished data); ?Iran (Lys et al., 1978).
(Vachard in Krainer et al. (2019)). [details]
Occurrence: Sakmarian–Artinskian; Carnic Alps, Slovenia, southern Urals, Turkey, northern Afghanistan, Pamirs, Fergana, North China, Tarim, South China, Laos, Vietnam and Japan (Liu et al., 1978; Leven et al., 1992; Lys, 1994; Rauzer-Chernousova et al., 1996; Vachard, unpublished data); ?Iran (Lys et al., 1978).
(Vachard in Krainer et al. (2019)). [details]
Diagnosis Test robust, globular to ovoid, about 5 mm in length, early whorls tightly coiled with elongate axis resulting in fusiform...
Diagnosis Test robust, globular to ovoid, about 5 mm in length, early whorls tightly coiled with elongate axis resulting in fusiform shape, abrupt increase in height after the juvenarium followed by four to five larger whorls, septa nearly plane to slightly fluted at the base; wall thick, of tectum and coarsely alveolar keriotheca, increasing in thickness in the adult stage, chomata very low and widely spaced; septal pores numerous. L. Permian (Sakmarian) Wolfcampian; Austria; Yugoslavia; Turkey; Iraq; USSR: W. part, S. Urals, and Asiatic region; Japan; S. China; Viet Nam. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Zellia Kahler & Kahler, 1937 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721864 on 2026-05-06
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(of Pseudoschwagerina (Zellia) Kahler & Kahler, 1937 †) Kahler, F.; Kahler, G. (1937). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fusuliniden der Ostalpen: Die Pseudoschwagerinen der Grenzlandbänke und des oberen Schwagerinenkalkes. <em>Palaeontographica.</em> 87: 1-44.
page(s): p. 20 [details]
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
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page(s): p. 20 [details]
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
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Description Description: Test large, inflated fusiform to subspherical. Poles rounded to slightly umbilicated. Proloculus spherical relatively large. Septa unfolded to faintly folded, often with numerous septal pores. Juvenarium poorly developed with only one or two volutions more tightly coiled. Wall and septa thick for a pseudoschwagerinin. Chomata faint and low. Aperture terminal, basal, simple.Occurrence: Sakmarian–Artinskian; Carnic Alps, Slovenia, southern Urals, Turkey, northern Afghanistan, Pamirs, Fergana, North China, Tarim, South China, Laos, Vietnam and Japan (Liu et al., 1978; Leven et al., 1992; Lys, 1994; Rauzer-Chernousova et al., 1996; Vachard, unpublished data); ?Iran (Lys et al., 1978).
(Vachard in Krainer et al. (2019)). [details]
Diagnosis Test robust, globular to ovoid, about 5 mm in length, early whorls tightly coiled with elongate axis resulting in fusiform shape, abrupt increase in height after the juvenarium followed by four to five larger whorls, septa nearly plane to slightly fluted at the base; wall thick, of tectum and coarsely alveolar keriotheca, increasing in thickness in the adult stage, chomata very low and widely spaced; septal pores numerous. L. Permian (Sakmarian) Wolfcampian; Austria; Yugoslavia; Turkey; Iraq; USSR: W. part, S. Urals, and Asiatic region; Japan; S. China; Viet Nam. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
From editor or global species database
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