WoRMS taxon details
original description
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
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
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test rounded to ovate in outline, compressed, planispirally enrolled, each chamber approximately semicircular in side view, few rapidly enlarging chambers per whorl, ranging from three in the earliest whorl to five in the final one, inflated laterally so that test appears lobulate in edge view, slightly evolute, biumbilicate, sutures nearly straight, depressed, periphery carinate, final chamber uncoiled, with keel present both before and behind the terminal aperture; wall calcareous, hyaline, transparent, perforate radial, surface smooth; aperture multiple, of five or more rounded openings at the dorsal angle, each produced on a short tubular neck, openings of previous chambers marked by a clear triangular area at the periphery just preceding the new chamber. Pliocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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