WoRMS taxon details
Ambitropus Lipps, 1965
722258 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722258)
accepted
Genus
Epistominella evax Bandy, 1953 accepted as Ambitropus evax (Bandy, 1953) (type by original designation)
- Species Ambitropus evax (Bandy, 1953)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
Lipps, J.H. 1965. Revision of the foraminiferal family Pseudoparrellidae Voloshinova. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 3: 117-147., available online at https://journals.tulane.edu/index.php/tsgp/article/view/398
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Ambitropus Lipps, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722258 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Lipps, J.H. 1965. Revision of the foraminiferal family Pseudoparrellidae Voloshinova. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 3: 117-147., available online at https://journals.tulane.edu/index.php/tsgp/article/view/398
page(s): p. 120 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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]
page(s): p. 120 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record 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 ovate in outline, trochospiral, flattened to planoconvex, spiral side flat, with all of the two and a half whorls visible, six to seven broad, rapidly enlarging crescentic chambers in the final whorl, umbilical side slightly convex, umbilicus closed, sutures depressed, curved, and oblique on both sides, periphery carinate; wall calcareous, optically radial, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture interiomarginal and equatorial, a wide vertical slit extending up the apertural face, surrounded by a rim that merges into the peripheral keel. Miocene to Holocene; USA: California; Ecuador. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
