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Buliminella elegantissima (d’Orbigny, 1839) 
AphiaID: 113747

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Rhizaria (Infrakingdom) > Foraminifera (Phylum) > Polythalamea (Class) > Buliminida (Order) > Buliminoidea (Superfamily) > Buliminellidae (Family) > Buliminella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Buliminella Cushman, 1911
Synonymised
taxa
  Bulimina elegantissima d´Orbigny, 1839 (Synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Asioli, A. 1995. Living (stained) benthic Foraminifera distribution in the western Ross Sea (Antarctica). Paleopelagos 5, 201-214. [details]

additional source: B. K. Sen Gupta, L. E. Smith, and M. L. Machain-Castillo. 2009. Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 87–129 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Murray, J.W. (2006) Ecology and applications of benthic foraminifera, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 426pp., available online at http://www.cambridge.org/9780521828390 [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Variety Buliminella elegantissima var. cochlea Wiesner, 1931
Variety Buliminella elegantissima var. hensoni Lagoe, 1977
Variety Buliminella elegantissima var. limbosa Cushman & McCulloch, 1948
Variety Buliminella elegantissima var. tenuis Cushman & McCulloch, 1948

Variety Buliminella elegantissima var. seminuda (Terquem, 1882) accepted as Buliminella seminuda (Terquem, 1882)
Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Baie des Chaleurs [details]
Beaufort [details]
Buttonwood Sound [details]
Buzzards Bay [details]
Canso Strait [details]
Cape Hatteras [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Florida Bay [details]
Georgia Shelf [details]
Gulf of Cadiz [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Long Island Sound [details]
Maryland Shelf [details]
Mason Inlet [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Miramichi Bay [details]
Miramichi River [details]
Nantucket Sound [details]
Narragansett Bay [details]
New Caledonia [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portsmouth (US) [details]
Rabbit Key Basin [details]
Rhode Island Sound [details]
Ross Sea [details]
Saint John River [details]
Scotian Shelf [details]
South Florida Keys [details]
St. Georges Bay [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
St. Margarets Bay [details]
Vineyard Sound [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 
Buliminella elegantissima
Buliminella elegantissima
added on 2010-12-06 - author: Tomas Cedhagen
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Foraminifera - Plate 6 - Glandulinidae, Turrilinidae, Bolivinitidae, Uvigerinidae, Nonionidae, Robertinidae, Caucasinidae
Foraminifera - Plate 6 - Glandulinidae, Turrilinidae, Bolivinitidae, Uvigerinidae, Nonionidae, Robertinidae, Caucasinidae
added on 2011-07-05 - author: Cole, F. and C. Ferguson ()
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Buliminella elegantissima
Buliminella elegantissima
added on 2011-08-16 - author: Cedhagen, Tomas
qualitystatus: not checked

Buliminella elegantissima
Buliminella elegantissima
added on 2011-08-16 - author: Cedhagen, Tomas
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:113747
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gross, Onno
2010-03-26 07:22:27Z  changed  Hayward, Bruce
  
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  Citation: Hayward, B.; Gross, O. (2013). Buliminella elegantissima (d’Orbigny, 1839). In: Hayward, B.W., Cedhagen, T., Kaminski, M., Gross, O. (2013) World Modern Foraminifera Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=113747 on 2013-05-23
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