Foraminifera taxon details
Orbitosiphon Rao, 1940 †
848005 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:848005)
accepted
Genus
Lepidocyclina (Polylepidina) punjabensis Davies, 1937 † accepted as Orbitosiphon punjabensis (Davies, 1937) † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Rao, S. R. N. (1940). On Orbitosiphon, a new genus of orbitoidal Foraminifera from the Ranikot beds of the Punjab Salt Range (N.W. India). <em>Current Science, Bangalor.</em> 9: 414-415., available online at http://www.currentscience.ac.in/cs/Downloads/article_id_009_09_0414_0415_0.pdf [details] Available for editors 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Orbitosiphon Rao, 1940 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848005 on 2024-05-14
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original description
Rao, S. R. N. (1940). On Orbitosiphon, a new genus of orbitoidal Foraminifera from the Ranikot beds of the Punjab Salt Range (N.W. India). <em>Current Science, Bangalor.</em> 9: 414-415., available online at http://www.currentscience.ac.in/cs/Downloads/article_id_009_09_0414_0415_0.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
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Grammatical gender The ICZN specifies: "30.1.2. a genus-group name that is or ends in a Greek word transliterated into Latin without other changes takes the gender given for that word in standard Greek dictionaries."σίφων is masculine in ancient Greek, the genus is masculine. [details]