WoRMS taxon details
Hopkinsina Howe & Wallace, 1932
112270 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112270)
accepted
Genus
Hopkinsina danvillensis Howe & Wallace, 1932 † (type by original designation)
Norcottia Vella, 1961 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Opinion of Hornibrook et al...)
Opinion of Hornibrook et al (1989, p. 158)
- Species Hopkinsina atlantica Cushman, 1944
- Species Hopkinsina hancocki Todd, 1948
- Species Hopkinsina kuwanoi Oki, 1989
- Species Hopkinsina nodosa Natland, 1938
- Species Hopkinsina oceanica Todd, 1948
- Species Hopkinsina pacifica Cushman, 1933
- Species Hopkinsina victoriensis Collins, 1974
- Species Hopkinsina wakimotoensis Asano, 1950
- Species Hopkinsina compressa (Cushman, 1925) accepted as Rectuvigerina compressa (Cushman, 1925) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Hopkinsina glabra (Millett, 1903) accepted as Hopkinsinella glabra (Millett, 1903)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Howe, H. V.; Wallace, W. E. (1932). Foraminifera of the Jackson Eocene at Danville Landing on the Ouachita, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. <em>Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Louisiana.</em> 2: 1-118.
page(s): p. 61 [details]
page(s): p. 61 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Hopkinsina Howe & Wallace, 1932. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112270 on 2025-05-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Howe, H. V.; Wallace, W. E. (1932). Foraminifera of the Jackson Eocene at Danville Landing on the Ouachita, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. <em>Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Louisiana.</em> 2: 1-118.
page(s): p. 61 [details]
original description (of Norcottia Vella, 1961 †) Vella, P. (1961). Upper Oligocene and Miocene Uvigerinid Foraminifera from Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 7: 467-483., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484383 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Uvigerina (Hopkinsina) Howe & Wallace, 1932 in Daniels et al., 1986) Daniels, H. v.; Spiegler, D.; Cicha, I. (1986). Korrelation von Neogen-Stufen Nordwestdeutschlands und der Paratethys durch Uvigerinen (Foram.) und Bemerkungen zum Orhulina-Datum / Correlation of Neogene Stages in Northwest Germany and in the Paratethys by Unigering Species (Foram.) and Remarks on the Orbulina Datum. <em>Beiträge zur regionalen Geologie der Erde.</em> 18: 192-209.
page(s): p. 199 [details] Available for editors
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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. 61 [details]
original description (of Norcottia Vella, 1961 †) Vella, P. (1961). Upper Oligocene and Miocene Uvigerinid Foraminifera from Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. <em>Micropaleontology.</em> 7: 467-483., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1484383 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Uvigerina (Hopkinsina) Howe & Wallace, 1932 in Daniels et al., 1986) Daniels, H. v.; Spiegler, D.; Cicha, I. (1986). Korrelation von Neogen-Stufen Nordwestdeutschlands und der Paratethys durch Uvigerinen (Foram.) und Bemerkungen zum Orhulina-Datum / Correlation of Neogene Stages in Northwest Germany and in the Paratethys by Unigering Species (Foram.) and Remarks on the Orbulina Datum. <em>Beiträge zur regionalen Geologie der Erde.</em> 18: 192-209.
page(s): p. 199 [details] Available for editors

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
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
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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





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Diagnosis Test elongate, narrow, chambers slightly inflated, increasing in size as added, early stage triserial, later biserial, sutures depressed, oblique; wall calcareous, perforate, surface longitudinally striate or with low costae; aperture terminal, ovate, slightly produced, bordered with a lip, presence or absence of a toothplate unknown. Eocene to Holocene; North America; Europe. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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