WoRMS taxon details
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Diagnosis Test free, a high cone with flattened base, globular proloculus followed by trochospirally coiled undivided broad and low second chamber, with lamellae filling the wide umbilical region; wall hyaline, acting as a single crystal, but probably of aragonite; aperture at the open end of the spiralling tubular chamber and a row of small pores adjacent to the spiral suture on the evolute side. Holocene; S. Pacific, at about 315 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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