Foraminifera taxon details
Arenosiphon Grubbs, 1939 †
737394 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:737394)
accepted
Genus
Arenosiphon gigantea Grubbs, 1939 † accepted as Arenosiphon giganteus Grubbs, 1939 † (type by original designation)
- Species Arenosiphon giganteus Grubbs, 1939 †
- Species Arenosiphon minimus Eisenack, 1969 †
- Species Arenosiphon rugosus Miller, 1956 †
- Species Arenosiphon gigantea Grubbs, 1939 † accepted as Arenosiphon giganteus Grubbs, 1939 † (Genus is masculine ICZN 30.1.2.)
- Species Arenosiphon minima Eisenack, 1969 † accepted as Arenosiphon minimus Eisenack, 1969 † (Genus is masculine ICZN 30.1.2.)
- Species Arenosiphon rugosa Miller, 1956 † accepted as Arenosiphon rugosus Miller, 1956 † (Genus is masculine ICZN 30.1.2.)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
masculine
Grubbs, D. M. (1939). Fauna of the Niagaran nodules of the Chicago Area. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 13(6): 543-560.
page(s): p. 544; note: Type species given with a feminine epithet but "siphon" is masculine in Greek. See ICZN 30.1.2. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 544; note: Type species given with a feminine epithet but "siphon" is masculine in Greek. See ICZN 30.1.2. [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, tubular, elongate, tapering, up to 14 mm in length and 1.0 mm in diameter, straight to slightly curved; wall of...
Grammatical gender The ICZN specifies: "30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other...
Diagnosis Test free, tubular, elongate, tapering, up to 14 mm in length and 1.0 mm in diameter, straight to slightly curved; wall of agglutinated medium to fine quartz grains, firmly cemented, surface roughly finished. U. Ordovician (Caradocian); glacial pebble, Baltic area; M. Silurian: USA: Illinois. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Grammatical gender The ICZN specifies: "30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other...
Grammatical gender The ICZN specifies: "30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other changes takes the gender given for that word in standard Greek dictionaries."
σίφων is masculine in ancient Greek, the genus is masculine. [details]
σίφων is masculine in ancient Greek, the genus is masculine. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Arenosiphon Grubbs, 1939 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737394 on 2026-04-17
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original description
Grubbs, D. M. (1939). Fauna of the Niagaran nodules of the Chicago Area. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 13(6): 543-560.
page(s): p. 544; note: Type species given with a feminine epithet but "siphon" is masculine in Greek. See ICZN 30.1.2. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source McCauley, C. M.; Nestell, G. P.; Nestell, M. K.; Mayer, P. S. (2025). Silurian Foraminifers in the Collections of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Part I: D. M. Grubbs (1939). <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 71(4): 335-345., available online at https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.71.4.02 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 544; note: Type species given with a feminine epithet but "siphon" is masculine in Greek. See ICZN 30.1.2. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source McCauley, C. M.; Nestell, G. P.; Nestell, M. K.; Mayer, P. S. (2025). Silurian Foraminifers in the Collections of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Part I: D. M. Grubbs (1939). <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 71(4): 335-345., available online at https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.71.4.02 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, tubular, elongate, tapering, up to 14 mm in length and 1.0 mm in diameter, straight to slightly curved; wall of agglutinated medium to fine quartz grains, firmly cemented, surface roughly finished. U. Ordovician (Caradocian); glacial pebble, Baltic area; M. Silurian: USA: Illinois. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Grammatical gender The ICZN specifies: "30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other changes takes the gender given for that word in standard Greek dictionaries."
σίφων is masculine in ancient Greek, the genus is masculine. [details]
From editor or global species database
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