Foraminifera name details
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1986). Some New and Revised Genera and Families of Hyaline Calcareous Foraminiferida (Protozoa). <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 105(3): 239-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3226297 page(s): p. 249 fig. 9-12 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 tiny, elongate, chambers globular and enlarging rapidly as added, triserial throughout or with chamber proliferation in the final stage, sutures deeply depressed, margins lobulate; wall calcareous, hyaline, thin, and translucent, surface smooth to grainy in appearance at high magnification, very fine pores sparsely scattered over the surface and not elevated on pore mounds; aperture a simple rounded and umbilical arch at the base of the final chamber, without a lip. Pleistocene to Holocene; N. and S. Pacific; Indian Ocean; Gulf of Mexico. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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