Foraminifera taxon details
Acupeina Brönnimann & Zaninetti, 1984
723118 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:723118)
accepted
Genus
Haplophragmium salsum Cushman & Brönnimann, 1948 accepted as Acupeina salsum (Cushman & Brönnimann, 1948) accepted as Acupeina triperforata (Millett, 1899) (type by original designation)
- Species Acupeina triperforata (Millett, 1899)
- Species Acupeina salsum (Cushman & Brönnimann, 1948) accepted as Acupeina triperforata (Millett, 1899)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Brönnimann, P.; Zaninetti, L. (1984). Acupeina a new textulariine genus from mangrove swamp sediments (Protista, Foraminiferida). <em>Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève.</em> 3: 219-222.
page(s): p. 220 [details]
page(s): p. 220 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Acupeina Brönnimann & Zaninetti, 1984. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=723118 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Brönnimann, P.; Zaninetti, L. (1984). Acupeina a new textulariine genus from mangrove swamp sediments (Protista, Foraminiferida). <em>Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève.</em> 3: 219-222.
page(s): p. 220 [details]
page(s): p. 220 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test elongate, large, up to 1.35 mm in length, early stage with large streptospiral coil of about three whorls, chambers enlarging gradually as added, later stage uncoiled and rectilinear, sutures radial, curved and depressed in the early stage, curved to nearly straight in the adult; wall agglutinated, of a single layer of quartz grains on an inner organic lining; aperture single and interiomarginal in the enrolled stage, becoming terminal and multiple in the uncoiled stage, with from three to numerous rounded openings. Holocene in brackish water: Atlantic; Nigeria; Senegal; Caribbean; Brazil; Ecuador; Malay Peninsula; Fiji. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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