WoRMS taxon details
Vertebrasigmoilina Hofker, 1976
416134 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:416134)
accepted
Genus
Articulina mexicana Cushman, 1922 accepted as Vertebrasigmoilina mexicana (Cushman, 1922) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Hofker, J. (1976). Further studies on Caribbean foraminifera. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 49: 1-256., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506198
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Vertebrasigmoilina Hofker, 1976. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416134 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Hofker, J. (1976). Further studies on Caribbean foraminifera. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 49: 1-256., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506198
page(s): p. 135 [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
page(s): p. 135 [details] Available for editors
[request] 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
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Diagnosis Test broad and flattened, up to 1.0 mm in length, periphery carinate, proloculus followed by about two whorls of chambers one-half coil in length, in sigmoiline arrangement, later chambers increase rapidly in breadth but not proportionately in length so that later whorls have three chambers per whorl and coiling becomes planispiral, final stage with up to two uncoiled chambers; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, surface smooth and shining or may be faintly striate; aperture at the open end of the final chamber, an elongate slit bordered by an everted lip. Holocene; Gulf of Mexico: off Florida; West Indies. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
