WoRMS banner

WoRMS RSS feed RSS
Add search provider Add provider
Twitter: Latest updates @WRMarineSpecies

WoRMS taxon details

Alterammina alternans (Earland, 1934) 
AphiaID: 398217

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Rhizaria (Infrakingdom) > Foraminifera (Phylum) > Polythalamea (Class) > Trochamminida (Order) > Trochamminoidea (Superfamily) > Trochamminidae (Family) > Trochamminellinae (Subfamily) > Alterammina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Alterammina Brönnigmann & Whittaker, 1988
Synonymised
taxa
  Trochammina alternans Earland, 1934
Sources  basis of record: Earland, A. (1934) Foraminifera. Part III. The Falklands sector of the Antarctic (excluding South Georgia). Discovery Reports 10 (1935), University Press, Cambridge, p 1-208. [details]

additional source: Cornelius, N., Gooday, A.J. (2004) ‘Live’(stained) deep-sea benthic foraminiferans in the western Weddell Sea: trends in abundance, diversity, and taxonomic composition along a depth transect. Deep-Sea Research II 51, 1571-1602. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Bellingshausen Sea [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Weddell Sea [details]
Scotia Sea [details]
South Sandwich Islands [details]
West Adelaide Island [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398217
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-06-10 14:17:32Z  created  Gooday, Andrew
2010-03-26 07:22:27Z  changed  Hayward, Bruce
  
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: Hayward, B.; Gooday, A. (2013). Alterammina alternans (Earland, 1934). 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=398217 on 2013-05-23
  Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License