Foraminifera taxon details
Ruakituria Kennett, 1967
465863 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465863)
accepted
Genus
Ruakituria pseudorobusta Kennett, 1967 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Kennett, J. P. (1967). New Foraminifera from the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene of New Zealand. <em>New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.</em> 10: 989-1008., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=1d04AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA989
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Diagnosis Test elongate, stout, early trochospiral stage with four or more chambers per whorl, later reduced to biserial, chambers...
Diagnosis Test elongate, stout, early trochospiral stage with four or more chambers per whorl, later reduced to biserial, chambers partly subdivided internally by vertical radial partitions that project inward from the outer wall; wall agglutinated, noncanaliculate; aperture a vertical slit or loop extending upward from the base of the final chamber. L. Miocene to Holocene; New Zealand; Andaman Sea, Car Nicobar; Pacific Ocean, off Fiji. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Ruakituria Kennett, 1967. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465863 on 2025-06-07
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Kennett, J. P. (1967). New Foraminifera from the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene of New Zealand. <em>New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.</em> 10: 989-1008., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=1d04AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA989
page(s): p. 994 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 994 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test elongate, stout, early trochospiral stage with four or more chambers per whorl, later reduced to biserial, chambers partly subdivided internally by vertical radial partitions that project inward from the outer wall; wall agglutinated, noncanaliculate; aperture a vertical slit or loop extending upward from the base of the final chamber. L. Miocene to Holocene; New Zealand; Andaman Sea, Car Nicobar; Pacific Ocean, off Fiji. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
