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Amphistegina lessonii d'Orbigny, 1826 Identified specimen
Description Image source: Todd, R. 1965. The Foraminifera of the Tropical Pacific Collections of the ”Albatross”, 1899-1900. Part 4. Rotaliform families and planktonic families [End of Volume]. Bull. U.S. Nation. Mus 161: v+139 pp.+28 pls.Identified by Todd as Amphistegina madagascariensis d'Orb, which is a nomen nudum (Larsen, 1976). This illustration is a perfect illustration of an A. lesonii (pers. comm. Pamela Hallock Muller, June 2019). JPG file - 364.48 kB - 1 201 x 437 pixels added on 2011-09-21657 views
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Comment (1)
added on 2016-09-05 21:48:31 by 
Obviously Amphistegina lobifera Larsen,
A. madagascariensis is a junior synonym of A. lessonii.
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