WoRMS taxon details
original description
Tendal, O.S.; Hessler, R.R. (1977). An introduction to the biology and systematics of Komokiacea (Textulariina, Foraminiferida). <em>Galathea Report.</em> 14: 165-194., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268274172 page(s): p. 178 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Deepsea)
Gooday, A.J., Cedhagen, T., Kamenskaya, O.E., Cornelius, N. (2007) The biodiversity and biogeography of komokiaceans and other enigmatic foraminiferan-like protists in the deep Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II 54, 1691-1719., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.003 [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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test arborescent, up to 2 mm across, dichotomously branching at irregular intervals, the branching increasingly rapid toward the periphery, commonly with four to six orders of branching, all branchlets of approximately equal diameter, somewhat crooked but basically radiating; wall with thin inner organic layer and thicker outer agglutinated layer of clay particles, grayish in color, flexible. Holocene; central N. Pacific at 5,588 m to 6,079 m; Caribbean, at 5,220 m to 5,650 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
From editor or global species database
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