WoRMS taxon details
Loxostomina Sellier de Civrieux, 1969
112104 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112104)
accepted
Genus
Bolivina mayori Cushman, 1922 accepted as Loxostomina mayori (Cushman, 1922) (type by original designation)
Bolivina (Loxostomina) Sellier de Civrieux, 1976 · unaccepted (Nomen translatum)
Loxostomella Saidova, 1975 · unaccepted (Objective synonym)
- Species Loxostomina africana (Smitter, 1955)
- Species Loxostomina amygdalaeformis (Brady, 1881)
- Species Loxostomina barkeri (Margerel, 1981)
- Species Loxostomina costatapertusa Loeblich & Tappan, 1994
- Species Loxostomina costulata (Cushman, 1922)
- Species Loxostomina limbata (Brady, 1881)
- Species Loxostomina mayori (Cushman, 1922)
- Species Loxostomina rostrum (Cushman, 1933)
- Species Loxostomina sinuosa (Cushman, 1936)
- Species Loxostomina vertebralis (Cushman, 1924)
- Species Loxostomina durrandii (Millett, 1900) accepted as Sagrinella durrandii (Millett, 1900)
- Species Loxostomina instabilis (Cushman & McCulloch, 1942) accepted as Euloxostomum bradyi (Asano, 1938) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Loxostomina porrecta (Brady, 1881) accepted as Parabrizalina porrecta (Brady, 1881)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Sellier de Civrieux, J. M. (1969). Cuatro géneros nuevos de foraminíferos del Mar Caribe. <em>Boletin del Instituto Oceanográfico. Universidad de Oriente. Cumaná.</em> 7[1968]: 149-193, pls. 1-10.
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(of Bolivina (Loxostomina) Sellier de Civrieux, 1976) Sellier de Civrieux, J. M. (1976). Estudio sistemático y ecológico de las Bolivinitidae recientes de Venezuela. <em>Cuadernos oceanográficos, Universidad de Oriente.</em> 5: 1-41. [details]
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[request](of Bolivina (Loxostomina) Sellier de Civrieux, 1976) Sellier de Civrieux, J. M. (1976). Estudio sistemático y ecológico de las Bolivinitidae recientes de Venezuela. <em>Cuadernos oceanográficos, Universidad de Oriente.</em> 5: 1-41. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Loxostomina Sellier de Civrieux, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112104 on 2025-05-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Sellier de Civrieux, J. M. (1969). Cuatro géneros nuevos de foraminíferos del Mar Caribe. <em>Boletin del Instituto Oceanográfico. Universidad de Oriente. Cumaná.</em> 7[1968]: 149-193, pls. 1-10.
page(s): p. 159 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Loxostomella Saidova, 1975) Saidova, K. M. (1975). Бентосине фораминиферий Тихого океана-Bentosniye foraminifery Tikhogo Okeana-Benthonic Foraminifera of the Pacific Ocean. <em>Институт океанологии им. П. П. Шершова Академии наук СССР-P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.</em> 3: parts.
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original description (of Bolivina (Loxostomina) Sellier de Civrieux, 1976) Sellier de Civrieux, J. M. (1976). Estudio sistemático y ecológico de las Bolivinitidae recientes de Venezuela. <em>Cuadernos oceanográficos, Universidad de Oriente.</em> 5: 1-41. [details]
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]
page(s): p. 159 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Loxostomella Saidova, 1975) Saidova, K. M. (1975). Бентосине фораминиферий Тихого океана-Bentosniye foraminifery Tikhogo Okeana-Benthonic Foraminifera of the Pacific Ocean. <em>Институт океанологии им. П. П. Шершова Академии наук СССР-P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.</em> 3: parts.
page(s): p. 311 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Bolivina (Loxostomina) Sellier de Civrieux, 1976) Sellier de Civrieux, J. M. (1976). Estudio sistemático y ecológico de las Bolivinitidae recientes de Venezuela. <em>Cuadernos oceanográficos, Universidad de Oriente.</em> 5: 1-41. [details]
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]
Other
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]
additional source Revets, S. A. (1996). The generic revision of five families of Rotaliine Foraminifera - Part 1. The Bolivinitidae Cushman, 1927. <em>Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication.</em> 1-55., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/SpecialPublications/sp34.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Revets, S. A. (1996). The generic revision of five families of Rotaliine Foraminifera - Part 1. The Bolivinitidae Cushman, 1927. <em>Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication.</em> 1-55., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/SpecialPublications/sp34.pdf [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test narrow, elongate, slightly compressed and ovate in section, early stage biserial, later with cuneate chambers and finally uniserial, chambers progressively higher as added, sutures oblique in the early stage, horizontal in the uniserial stage, slightly depressed; wall calcareous, perforate, hyaline, optically radial, surface ornamented with very fine longitudinal costae; aperture terminal in the adult, oval, with a narrow lip, provided with an internal subcylindrical toothplate that extends from the aperture to the previous foramen, those of successive chambers changing orientation by 180¡, one border being produced as a tooth. Eocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
