WoRMS taxon details
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Diagnosis Test ovate in outline, slightly flattened, with truncate periphery, early chambers in quinqueloculine arrangement, later added in a single plane on alternate sides as in Spiroloculina; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, surface with longitudinal striae; aperture terminal, rounded, with a simple to bifid tooth that may attach at the sides to result in a multiple aperture. Holocene; Gulf of California. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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