Foraminifera taxon details
Discobotellina Collins, 1958
520851 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520851)
accepted
Genus
Discobotellina biperforata Collins, 1958 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Collins, A. C. (1958). Foraminifera. <em>Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 Scientific Reports.</em> 6: 335-437., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49524015#page/485/
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Type locality contained in Great Barrier Reef
type locality contained in Great Barrier Reef [details]
Diagnosis Test discoidal to ellipsoidal, up to 2.3 cm in diameter, with two different forms that may represent alternate generations,...
Diagnosis Test discoidal to ellipsoidal, up to 2.3 cm in diameter, with two different forms that may represent alternate generations, one discoidal with inflated center, the other of more elliptical outline and with two eccentric slotlike perforations through the test that appear to migrate outward with test growth by resorption and regrowth at the margins of the holes; wall agglutinated, with thick coarse-grained and poorly cemented inner layer and thinner, fine-grained and well cemented outer layer, imperforate except at periphery; aperture consists of interstitial spaces at the disk periphery that communicate with the chamber interior. Holocene, at 8 m to 74 m; Australia: Moreton Bay, S. Queensland, and Great Barrier Reef off E. Queensland. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Discobotellina Collins, 1958. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520851 on 2025-05-12
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original description
Collins, A. C. (1958). Foraminifera. <em>Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 Scientific Reports.</em> 6: 335-437., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49524015#page/485/
page(s): p. 342 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 342 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test discoidal to ellipsoidal, up to 2.3 cm in diameter, with two different forms that may represent alternate generations, one discoidal with inflated center, the other of more elliptical outline and with two eccentric slotlike perforations through the test that appear to migrate outward with test growth by resorption and regrowth at the margins of the holes; wall agglutinated, with thick coarse-grained and poorly cemented inner layer and thinner, fine-grained and well cemented outer layer, imperforate except at periphery; aperture consists of interstitial spaces at the disk periphery that communicate with the chamber interior. Holocene, at 8 m to 74 m; Australia: Moreton Bay, S. Queensland, and Great Barrier Reef off E. Queensland. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
