Foraminifera taxon details
Gordiospira Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932
413558 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413558)
accepted
Genus
Gordiospira fragilis Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Heron-allen, E.; Earland, A. (1932). Some new Foraminifera from the South Atlantic. IV. Four new genera from South Georgia. <em>Journal of the Royal Microscopial Society.</em> 52: 253-261., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1932.tb01872.x
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page(s): p. 254 [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Gordiospira Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413558 on 2024-04-19
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Heron-allen, E.; Earland, A. (1932). Some new Foraminifera from the South Atlantic. IV. Four new genera from South Georgia. <em>Journal of the Royal Microscopial Society.</em> 52: 253-261., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1932.tb01872.x
page(s): p. 254 [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. 254 [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 discoidal, proloculus followed by enrolled undivided tubular second chamber, early coiling streptospiral, later planispiral, second chamber not a complete tube, as the lateral walls overlap the preceding whorl that becomes the chamber floor; wall calcareous, imperforate, milky white, porcelaneous, thin, and delicate, surface with transverse growth wrinkles; aperture a broad arch at the open end of the tube. Holocene; S. Atlantic; Arctic; Antarctic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]