Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/3cclfr1.pdf page(s): p. 87; note: Type species Globigerinoides rubra. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Globicuniculus Saito & Thompson, 1976 †) Saito, T., P. R. Thompson, and D. Breger, 1976, Skeletal ultramicrostructure of some elongate chambered planktonic foraminifera and related species, in Y. Takayanagi, and T. Saito, eds., Progress in Micropaleontology. New York: The American Museum of Natural History, pp. 278-304. page(s): p. 287 [details]
original description
(of Alloglobigerinoides Huang, 1986) Huang, T. Y., 1986, Alloglobigerinoides, a new planktic foraminiferal genus, Petroleum Geology of Taiwan 22:93-102. page(s): p. 93 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Globigerinanus Ouda, 1978 †) Ouda, K. (1978). Globigerinanus, a new genus of the Globigerinidae from the Miocene of Egypt. <em>Revista Española de Micropaleontología.</em> 10: 355-378., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prof_Khaled_Ouda/publication/258021402/ page(s): p. 358 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
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]
ecology source
Leles, S. G.; Mitra, A.; Flynn, K. J.; Stoecker, D. K.; Hansen, P. J.; Calbet, A.; McManus, G. B.; Sanders, R. W.; Caron, D. A.; Not, F.; Hallegraeff, G. M.; Pitta, P.; Raven, J. A.; Johnson, M. D.; Glibert, P. M.; Våge, S. (2017). Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.</em> 284(1860): 20170664., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0664 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test with globular to ovate rapidly enlarging discrete chambers in a low to high trochospiral coil, few chambers per whorl, sutures radial, depressed, umbilicus open, periphery rounded, peripheral outline lobulate; wall calcareous, coarsely perforate and spinose, pores at the base of shallow pits, the smooth spines circular in section and set on slightly raised spine bases; primary aperture a large interiomarginal umbilical arch, one or more secondary sutural openings present on the spiral side at the intersection of the spiral and radial sutures. Uppermost Oligocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Grammatical gender ICZN article 30.1.4.4. stipulates: "A compound genus-group name ending in the suffix -ites, -oides, -ides, -odes, or -istes is to be treated as masculine unless its author, when establishing the name, stated that it had another gender or treated it as such by combining it with an adjectival species-group name in another gender form."
Cushman (1917) did not give any indication about the gender of Globigerinoides but quoted the type species as G. rubra.
He seems to have constantly used Globigerinoides as a feminine genus in his publications.
Authors describing new species and subspecies have variously considered Globigerinoides to be a feminine or a masculine genus.
Nevertheless the recent publications give at a great majority the genus as masculine.
Considering the confusion about the grammatical gender, the WoRMS editors are applying the general ICZN rule and consider Globigerinoides to be a masculine genus. [details]
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