WoRMS taxon details
Rectomassilina Seiglie, 1964
722001 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722001)
accepted
Genus
Rectomassilina triangularis Seiglie, 1964 accepted as Rectomassilina tricarinata (Collins, 1958) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Seiglie, G. A. (1964). New and rare foraminifers from Los Testigos reefs, Venezuela. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 4(4): 497-512.
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page(s): p. 505 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality contained in Venezuelan part of the Caribbean Sea
type locality contained in Venezuelan part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Rectomassilina Seiglie, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722001 on 2024-04-18
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original description
Seiglie, G. A. (1964). New and rare foraminifers from Los Testigos reefs, Venezuela. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 4(4): 497-512.
page(s): p. 505 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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. 505 [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record 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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test small, elongate, proloculus followed by chambers one-half coil in length, quinqueloculine, later chambers added on opposite sides in a single plane, resembling Massilina, and finally uncoiled and rectilinear, uniserial chambers may be pyriform in shape and angular in section; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous; aperture rounded, at a slight inflation of the narrowed end of the final chamber. Holocene; off Northeast Venezuela. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
