WoRMS name details

Rotaliacea Ehrenberg, 1839

163869  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:163869)

 unaccepted
Superfamily
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Rotaliacea Ehrenberg, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=163869 on 2024-03-19
Date
action
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2005-07-07 10:14:33Z
created
2010-09-15 04:20:13Z
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2010-09-15 20:38:30Z
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basis of record Patterson, D. (2001). Platypus checklist of Protoctista [details]   

additional source The Taxonomicon, available online at http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test enrolled in a trochospiral or planispiral coil, involute to evolute, commonly with many small chambers in numerous whorls; as new chambers are added septal flap attaches to previous apertural face and encloses radial canals, fissures, umbilical cavities, and intraseptal and subsutural canals; wall of perforate, hyaline calcite, generally optically radial in structure, or rarely hyaline oblique and optically granular; primary aperture single or multiple, interiomarginal to areal, may be absent on final chamber and only an intercameral foramen is present; small openings into the canal system may occur along the sutures but do not communicate with the chamber interior. U. Cretaceous (Coniacian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]