Foraminifera taxon details
Vonkleinsmidia McCulloch, 1977
722247 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722247)
accepted
Genus
Vonkleinsmidia elizabethae McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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 [request]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Vonkleinsmidia McCulloch, 1977. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722247 on 2024-04-23
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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 [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 [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 [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test large, about 3 mm in diameter, low trochospiral coil of few whorls, planoconvex with convex spiral side, seven to eight lunate chambers in the final whorl separated by strongly oblique sutures, umbilical side with strongly sinuate sutures around the open umbilicus, a subtriangular umbilical flap projecting from each chamber, periphery carinate, somewhat elevated on the spiral side; wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture interiomarginal, extraumbilical, extending somewhat under the umbilical chamber flap, supplementary openings on both sides of the umbilical flap, and numerous smaller sutural openings present along the inner half of the sutures. Holocene; E. Pacific: off California. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]