Foraminifera taxon details
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Diagnosis Test flask shaped, 20 µm to 25 µmin length, wall thin, hyaline, proteinaceous; cytoplasm a globular mass that only partly fills test interior, constricted toward the aperture into a pseudopodial trunk, very large contractile vacuole near base of pseudopodial trunk, nucleus subcentral; fine, straight granular pseudopodia show slow granular streaming. Fresh water. Holocene; Belgium; Switzerland. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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