WoRMS taxon details
Metalingulina McCulloch, 1977
520771 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520771)
accepted
Genus
Metalingulina belluliformis McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors 
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Type locality contained in Bikini
type locality contained in Bikini [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Metalingulina McCulloch, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520771 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature
original description
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
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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 [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test elongate, compressed, with a few rectilinear, rapidly enlarging and very strongly embracing chambers with a carinate lower border, septa resorbed with growth, external sutures nearly straight and horizontal, constricted; wall calcareous, translucent, finely perforate, surface smooth, except for the carinate lower margin of the chambers just above the sutures, and an apiculate projection at the lateral margins; aperture terminal, slitlike to ovate, with an entosolenian tube that is directed downward then bends at right angles toward the wall at one margin and bends again to parallel the outer wall nearly to the base of the chamber. Holocene; Pacific: Bikini Atoll; Galapagos Islands; Gulf of California; USA: off California. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
