WoRMS taxon details
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Diagnosis Test attached, a globular to ovate proloculus followed by spirally wound tubular second chamber of one volution or more and by irregularly uncoiled to branching, somewhat elongate, cylindrical to pyriform later chambers, attached side flattened, free surface convex, with a somewhat spreading marginal keel attached to the substrate beyond the chamber lumen; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture terminal, against the attachment. Holocene; Gulf of Mexico; Caribbean; Mediterranean. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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