Foraminifera taxon details
Virgulinella Cushman, 1932
416138 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:416138)
accepted
Genus
Virgulina pertusa Reuss, 1861 accepted as Virgulinella pertusa (Reuss, 1861) (type by original designation)
Virgulina (Virgulinella) Cushman, 1932 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan...)
Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987) nomen translatum
- Species Virgulinella aequale Kuznetsova, 1967 †
- Species Virgulinella chalkophila (Hagn, 1952) †
- Species Virgulinella fragilis Grindell & Collen, 1976
- Species Virgulinella gunteri (Cushman, 1929)
- Species Virgulinella karagiensis Mikhailova, 1968 †
- Species Virgulinella lunata Yabe & Asano, 1937 †
- Species Virgulinella miocenica (Cushman & Ponton, 1931) †
- Species Virgulinella neobuliminiformis Kuznetsova, 1967 †
- Species Virgulinella ossamagnifica Haman, Baker & Seiglie, 1993 †
- Species Virgulinella pertusa (Reuss, 1861)
- Species Virgulinella poiliensis Kuznetsova, 1967 †
- Species Virgulinella protescui Popescu, 1971 †
- Species Virgulinella severini Cañón & Ernst in Natland et al., 1974 †
- Species Virgulinella vaciva Kuznetsova, 1967 †
- Species Virgulinella curta McCulloch, 1981 accepted as Virgulinella fragilis Grindell & Collen, 1976
- Species Virgulinella peruensis McCulloch, 1977 accepted as Virgulinella fragilis Grindell & Collen, 1976 (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
(of Virgulina (Virgulinella) Cushman, 1932) Cushman, J. A. (1932). Notes on the genus Virgulina. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 8(1): 7-23., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/8cclfr1.pdf
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Virgulinella Cushman, 1932. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416138 on 2024-04-19
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(of Virgulina (Virgulinella) Cushman, 1932) Cushman, J. A. (1932). Notes on the genus Virgulina. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 8(1): 7-23., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/8cclfr1.pdf
page(s): p. 9 [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]
additional source Revets, S. A. (1991). The nature of Virgulinella Cushman, 1932 and the implications for its classification. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 21(4): 293-298., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.21.4.293 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 9 [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] additional source Revets, S. A. (1991). The nature of Virgulinella Cushman, 1932 and the implications for its classification. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 21(4): 293-298., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.21.4.293 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test elongate, fusiform in plan, oval in section, early stage triserial, later biserial, chambers slightly inflated and strongly overlapping, final pair comprising about two-thirds the test length, lower margin of chambers with numerous narrow bridgelike projections that cross the slightly constricted sutures; wall calcareous, finely perforate, opaque, optically granular; aperture an oblique loop in the apertural face, provided with a reduced tooth plate that commences near the previous foramen and attaches to the lower part of the chamber wall, continuing to the lower border of the aperture, with supplementary sutural openings between the sutural bridges. Miocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]