Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1838: 59-147, pls. 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29017435 page(s): Chart opp. p. 120, p. 134 [details]
original description
(of Taramellina Munier-Chalmas, 1902) Munier-Chalmas, E. (1902). Sur les Foraminifères rapportés au groupe des Orbitolites. <em>Bulletin de la Société géologique de France.</em> (4) 2 (3): 351-353., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30750132 page(s): p. 353 [details]
original description
(of Puteolina (Sorites) Hofker, 1971) Hofker, J. (1971). The Foraminifera of Piscadera Bay, Curaçao. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> Vol. 35, p. 1-62., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506144 page(s): p. 21 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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 [request]
subsequent type designation
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Sorites Ehrenberg, 1839 (Foraminiferida): proposed designation of Nautilus orbiculus Forsskål , 1775 as type species. <em>The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature.</em> 44: 160-161., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.306 [details]
subsequent type designation
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1989). Opinion 1536 Sorites Ehrenberg, [1839] (Foraminiferida): Nautilus Orbiculus Forsskål, 1775 designated as the type species. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 46: 135-136., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12230148#page/153/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test discoidal, thick, megalospheric juvenarium of proloculus, flexostyle and one undivided chamber, then with a few peneroplid chambers, microspheric test peneropline in early stage, later stage of both generations with annular series of small chamberlets that are symmetrical with respect to the equatorial plane, separated by a median annular. passage that appears circular in section, crosswise-oblique stolon system connects chamberlets with two chambers of the preceding series and two chambers of the following series, stolons in a single plane; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, smooth; aperture a single row of openings with protruding rims and with figure 8 outline resulting from the crosswise-oblique stolons, shell material may bridge the narrow part of the opening to form two openings; adult test may produce reproductive chambers. Miocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Caribbean; Pacific; Indian Ocean; Red Sea. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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