WoRMS taxon details
Broeckinella Henson, 1948 †
738656 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738656)
accepted
Genus
Broeckinella arabica Henson, 1948 † (type by original designation)
- Species Broeckinella arabica Henson, 1948 †
- Species Broeckinella hensoni Schlagintweit & Rashidi, 2020 †
- Species Broeckinella magna Septfontaine, 1978 †
- Species Broeckinella neumannae Gendrot, 1968 †
- Species Broeckinella aragonensis Peybernès, 1984 † accepted as Peneroplis aragonensis (Peybernès, 1984) † (Opinion of Schlagintweit and Rashidi (2020))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Henson, F. R. S. (1948). Larger imperforate foraminifera of south-western Asia. Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae. <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 1-127.
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Broeckinella Henson, 1948 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738656 on 2025-09-17
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Nomenclature
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Diagnosis Test free, large, up to 3.1 mm in diameter, undivided globular proloculus followed by planispiral and evolute early stage, chambers rapidly increasing in breadth to become arcuate but not completely cyclical, so that test is successively flabelliform, complanate, and finally reniform; wall agglutinated, microgranular, exoskeleton consisting of imperforate outer layer, subepidermal vertical partitions and two sets of transverse partitions, those of successive chambers aligned, outermost part of the marginal zone subdivided by very short secondary partitions, resulting in a polygonal meshwork; aperture multiple in the median plane, leading into the open part of the chamber lumen between the vertical partitions. U. Cretaceous (Santonian to Maastrichtian) to M. Paleocene; Arabia: Qatar Peninsula; Italy; France; Spain; Yugoslavia. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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