Foraminifera taxon details
Spiculosiphon Christiansen, 1964
520898 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520898)
accepted
Genus
Spiculosiphon radiata Christiansen, 1964 accepted as Spiculosiphon radiatus Christiansen, 1964 (type by original designation)
- Species Spiculosiphon oceana Maldonado, López-Acosta, Sitjà, Aguilar, García & Vacelet, 2013
- Species Spiculosiphon radiatus Christiansen, 1964
- Species Spiculosiphon radiata Christiansen, 1964 accepted as Spiculosiphon radiatus Christiansen, 1964 (Genus is masculine)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
Christiansen, B. O. (1964). Spiculosiphon radiata a new foraminifera from northern Norway. <em>Astarte, Zoological Department Tromsö Museum.</em> 25: 1-8.
page(s): p. 1 [details]
page(s): p. 1 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Spiculosiphon Christiansen, 1964. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520898 on 2024-04-24
Date
action
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original description
Christiansen, B. O. (1964). Spiculosiphon radiata a new foraminifera from northern Norway. <em>Astarte, Zoological Department Tromsö Museum.</em> 25: 1-8.
page(s): p. 1 [details]
page(s): p. 1 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test spherical, 0.4 mm to 4 mm in diameter; wall of loosely agglutinated sponge spicules that may protrude from the sphere and commonly with included tests of calcareous foraminifers, numerous thin organic threads extend about twice the diameter of the sphere and most specimens also have a long rod or tube of agglutinated sponge spicules on which it stands upright, rod two to ten times the diameter of the sphere and total length of the individual, with rod up to 20 mm; no distinct aperture; asexual reproduction by budding or by fission, sexual reproduction not observed. Holocene; N. Norway, at 100 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Grammatical gender The ICZN specifies: "30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other changes takes the gender given for that word in standard Greek dictionaries."
σίφων is masculine in ancient Greek, the genus is masculine. [details]