Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> vol. 7: 96-169, 245-314., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959 page(s): p. 276 [details]
original description
(of Tinoporus Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 [details]
original description
(of Rotalina (Calcarina) d'Orbigny, 1839) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1839). Foraminifères, in de la Sagra R., Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba. <em>A. Bertrand.</em> 1-224., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=KpVeAAAAcAAJ&pg page(s): p. 37, 79 [details]
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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test large, up to 2 mm in diameter, lenticular, biconvex, commonly with a few to many heavy and blunt to splayed or bifurcating radial spines, five to six whorls, trochospirally coiled throughout, ten to twenty chambers in the final whorl, spiral canal system present on the umbilical side, giving rise to radial canals and to numerous anastomosing radial spine canals that pass over the chambers on the spiral side to run through the spines; wall calcareous, thickly lamellar, perforate but with imperforate apertural face, surface highly ornamented, numerous pustules and spinules covering the test and obscuring the sutures, umbilicus filled by a pillarlike mass formed by lamellar deposits, apertural face may have radiating ridges; aperture and intercameral foramina consist of multiple rounded pores with elevated lips along the base of the apertural or septal face. Pliocene to Holocene; Pacific Ocean. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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