Foraminifera taxon details
Poritextularia Loeblich & Tappan, 1952
739480 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739480)
accepted
Genus
Poritextularia mexicana Loeblich & Tappan, 1952 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1952). Poritextularia, a new Recent foraminiferal genus. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 42(8): 264-266., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39697618
page(s): p. 264 [details]
page(s): p. 264 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Poritextularia Loeblich & Tappan, 1952. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739480 on 2024-04-19
Date
action
by
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1952). Poritextularia, a new Recent foraminiferal genus. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 42(8): 264-266., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39697618
page(s): p. 264 [details]
page(s): p. 264 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, large, broad, and flaring, sides flattened, broad low chambers biserially arranged throughout and highest at the median zigzag suture; wall agglutinated; aperture a high vertical and elongate slit beginning at the base of the apertural face, becoming multiple in the later stage, as projections extend across the opening to form a single row of pores on the face of the final chamber. Holocene; Pacific Ocean: off Mexico. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]