Foraminifera taxon details

Briceia McCulloch, 1977

520767  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520767)

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Genus
Briceia complectilis McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)

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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 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Briceia McCulloch, 1977. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520767 on 2024-03-28
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2010-09-17 12:15:07Z
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2010-09-21 06:54:10Z
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2014-04-23 09:24:32Z
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original description 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 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [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  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test auriculate in outline, compressed but with rounded periphery, fusiform proloculus followed by later chambers in partial coil, chambers progressively higher and extending farther from the base on the dorsal margin but reaching back to the proloculus on the ventral margin, sutures straight, radial, flush; wall calcareous, thin, hyaline, and translucent, finely perforate; surface smooth; aperture at the dorsal angle, ovate, slightly elongate in the plane of coiling, with an entosolenian tube extending back across the chamber lumen nearly to the dorsal wall, somewhat flared terminally. Holocene; Pacific: off the Philippine Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]