Foraminifera name details
Hantkenina longispina Cushman, 1925 †
909685 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:909685)
unaccepted (Opinion of Mikrotax http://mikrotax.org/pforams/ see notes.)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Cushman, J. A. (1925). A new genus of Eocene Foraminifera. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 66[1926](30): 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7739358 [details]
Taxonomic remark "the type specimen of H. longispina is missing from the USNM collections. Moreover, H. longispina has been used...
Taxonomic remark "the type specimen of H. longispina is missing from the USNM collections. Moreover, H. longispina has been used indiscriminately for a variety of only distantly related Hantkenina morphotypes with ‘long’ tubulospines. Although the name H. longispina cannot be rejected on the grounds that it is an inappropriate name (ICZN, 1999, Art. 23.3.7), in an attempt to avoid further taxonomic confusion, and because the type specimen of H. longispina is lost, we propose that the name H. longispina be suppressed and H. liebusi adopted as the valid name for these middle Eocene morphotypes." [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Hantkenina longispina Cushman, 1925 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=909685 on 2025-05-27
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Cushman, J. A. (1925). A new genus of Eocene Foraminifera. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 66[1926](30): 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7739358 [details]
basis of record Ellis, B. F.; Messina, A. R. (1940-2015). Catalogue of Foraminifera. <em>Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History, New York.</em> [details]
basis of record Ellis, B. F.; Messina, A. R. (1940-2015). Catalogue of Foraminifera. <em>Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History, New York.</em> [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark "the type specimen of H. longispina is missing from the USNM collections. Moreover, H. longispina has been used indiscriminately for a variety of only distantly related Hantkenina morphotypes with ‘long’ tubulospines. Although the name H. longispina cannot be rejected on the grounds that it is an inappropriate name (ICZN, 1999, Art. 23.3.7), in an attempt to avoid further taxonomic confusion, and because the type specimen of H. longispina is lost, we propose that the name H. longispina be suppressed and H. liebusi adopted as the valid name for these middle Eocene morphotypes." [details]