Foraminifera taxon details
Alexanderina McCulloch, 1977
465914 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465914)
accepted
Genus
Alexanderina viejoensis McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Alexanderina McCulloch, 1977. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465914 on 2024-04-19
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McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ
page(s): p. 337 [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. 337 [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 circular in outline, trochospiral, concavoconvex, with evolute, low, convex spiral side of three and a half whorls of numerous broad, low chambers, about eleven chambers in the final whorl, sutures flush, strongly oblique, and curved, umbilical side concave and partially evolute, about half the preceding whorl remaining visible around the deep umbilicus, sutures somewhat oblique to nearly radial, straight to faintly curved, periphery angular to rounded, noncarinate; wall calcareous, hyaline, polished, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture a high subequatorial slit, just on the umbilical side of the periphery in a depressed part of the apertural face and bordered by a narrow lip. Holocene; S. Pacific: off Peru. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]