WoRMS taxon details
Archaias Montfort, 1808
112061 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112061)
accepted
Genus
Archaias spirans Montfort, 1808 accepted as Archaias angulatus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) (type by original designation)
Helenis Montfort, 1808 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Ilotes Montfort, 1808 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Orbiculina Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Praearchaias Sirel, 1996 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Hottinger (2007)
Puteolina (Archaias) Hofker, 1952 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Species Archaias angulatus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)
- Species Archaias compressus (d'Orbigny, 1839) accepted as Cyclorbiculina compressa (d'Orbigny, 1839)
- Species Archaias spirans Montfort, 1808 accepted as Archaias angulatus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) (Nautilus angulatus is quoted as a synonym of A. spirans by Monfort (1808))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
masculine
Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571
page(s): vol. 1 p. 190 [details]
page(s): vol. 1 p. 190 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Archaias Montfort, 1808. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112061 on 2025-04-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571
page(s): vol. 1 p. 190 [details]
original description (of Orbiculina Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): p. 14 [details]
original description (of Helenis Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 [details]
original description (of Ilotes Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 [details]
original description (of Praearchaias Sirel, 1996 †) Sirel, E. (1996). Praearchaias, a new soritid genus (Foraminiferida), and its Oligocene shallow-water foraminiferal assemblage from the Diyarbakir region SE Turkey). <em>Geologica Romana.</em> 32: 167-181., available online at http://tetide.geo.uniroma1.it/dst/grafica_nuova/pubblicazioni_DST/geologica_romana/Volumi/VOL%2032/GR_32_167_181_Sirel.pdf
page(s): p. 168 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): vol. 1 p. 190 [details]
original description (of Orbiculina Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): p. 14 [details]
original description (of Helenis Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 [details]
original description (of Ilotes Montfort, 1808) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 [details]
original description (of Praearchaias Sirel, 1996 †) Sirel, E. (1996). Praearchaias, a new soritid genus (Foraminiferida), and its Oligocene shallow-water foraminiferal assemblage from the Diyarbakir region SE Turkey). <em>Geologica Romana.</em> 32: 167-181., available online at http://tetide.geo.uniroma1.it/dst/grafica_nuova/pubblicazioni_DST/geologica_romana/Volumi/VOL%2032/GR_32_167_181_Sirel.pdf
page(s): p. 168 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source 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]
additional source 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]From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test compressed, periphery rounded, early stage planispiral and involute, with a thickened central boss, chambers numerous, low and widening rapidly, equitant on the periphery, sutures strongly oblique and curved, later whorls flaring, peneropline, flabelliform or discoid, and chambers cyclical and evolute, interior of all but earliest chambers with cylindrical interseptal pillars, but no internal partitions or septula; wall calcareous, porcelaneous, early chambers perforate, later with surface pits or pseudopores; aperture in the early stage a basal slit, in the adult two to four rows of pores on the truncate apertural face are interspersed between the internal pillars, occupying much or all of the test circumference. Miocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
