Foraminifera taxon details
Sissonia McCulloch, 1977
721988 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721988)
accepted
Genus
Sissonia sanbenitoensis McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Sissonia McCulloch, 1977. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721988 on 2024-04-16
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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 [request]
basis of record 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]
[request] basis of record 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 subtriangular in outline, somewhat compressed and possibly may have been attached to algae in life, as one side of the holotype shows bordering chambers partially embracing an elongate groove that crosses the center of the test, early chambers apparently quinqueloculine, although no sections were made to confirm this, later planispiral with more numerous chambers per whorl, or possibly has three chambers per whorl that are subdivided into two to three chamberlets, sutures depressed, straight and horizontal, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, white and porcelaneous, thick, surface with longitudinal to oblique ribs that are not continuous across the sutures; aperture a broad arch at the end of the final chamber, bordered by a narrow lip, but without an apertural flap or tooth. Holocene, at 26 m; off Mexico. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]