Marine Species Traits

Traits taxon details

Rotaliida

AphiaID

163158 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:163158)

Classification

Authority

Lankester, 1885

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Rotaliana

Direct children (25)

Ordering

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Superfamily Acervulinoidea Schultze, 1854
Superfamily Annulopatellinoidea Loeblich & Tappan, 1964
Superfamily Asterigerinoidea d'Orbigny, 1839
Superfamily Bolivinitoidea Cushman, 1927
Superfamily Bolivinoidea Glaessner, 1937
Superfamily Buliminoidea Jones, 1875
Superfamily Calcarinoidea Schwager, 1876
Superfamily Cassidulinoidea d'Orbigny, 1839
Superfamily Chilostomelloidea Brady, 1881
Superfamily Discorbinelloidea Sigal, 1952
Superfamily Discorboidea Ehrenberg, 1838
Superfamily Eouvigerinoidea Cushman, 1927 †
Superfamily Glabratelloidea Loeblich & Tappan, 1964
Suborder Globigerinina
Superfamily Loxostomatoidea Loeblich & Tappan, 1962
Family Murrayinellidae Holzmann & Pawlowski, 2017
Superfamily Nonionoidea Schultze, 1854
Superfamily Nummulitoidea Blainville, 1825
Superfamily Orbitoidoidea Schwager, 1876 †
Superfamily Planorbulinoidea Schwager, 1877
Superfamily Rotalioidea Ehrenberg, 1839
Superfamily Siphoninoidea
Superfamily Turrilinoidea Cushman, 1927
Superfamily Virgulinelloidea Loeblich & Tappan, 1984
Superfamily Serioidea Holzmann & Pawlowski, 2017 accepted as Cassidulinoidea d'Orbigny, 1839 (Serioidea does not comply with ICZN as it has no type genus. It includes Cassidulinidae which is in the superfamily Cassidulinoididae which is considered the senior synonym (Hayward pers. comm. 2019))

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Lankester, E.R. (1885). Protozoa. In: Anon (ed.): Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. 19: 830-866., available online at https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/194071193
page(s): p. 847; note: Rotalidea Order. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Traits (2026). Rotaliida. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=163158 on 2026-08-03

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Rotaliida. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=163158 on 2026-08-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-05 09:59:09Z

created

Braeckman, Ulrike

2009-08-24 08:13:07Z

changed

Gooday, Andrew

2010-03-26 07:29:44Z

changed

Hayward, Bruce W.

2013-11-14 09:15:29Z

changed

Hayward, Bruce W.

2019-10-09 00:15:56Z

changed

Hayward, Bruce W.

2023-12-30 10:09:07Z

changed

Le Coze, François

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original description Lankester, E.R. (1885). Protozoa. In: Anon (ed.): Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. 19: 830-866., available online at https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/194071193
page(s): p. 847; note: Rotalidea Order. [details]

taxonomy source Holzmann, M.; Pawlowski, J. (2017). An updated classification of rotaliid foraminifera based on ribosomal DNA phylogeny. <em>Marine Micropaleontology.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2017.04.002
note: Rotaliida Delage & Hérouard, 1896 (Rotalidae Delage & Hérouard, 1896 = Suborder) [details] Available for editors

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record The Taxonomicon, available online at http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl [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

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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