WoRMS taxon details
Elphidiella Cushman, 1936
112161 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112161)
accepted
Genus
Polystomella arctica Parker & Jones, 1864 accepted as Elphidiella arctica (Parker & Jones, 1864) (type by original designation)
Pseudoelphidiella Voloshinova & Kuznetsova, 1970 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
Saidovella Voloshinova & Kuznetsova, 1970 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)
- Species Elphidiella arctica (Parker & Jones, 1864)
- Species Elphidiella biperforata (Whittaker & Hodgkinson, 1979)
- Species Elphidiella groenlandica (Cushman, 1933)
- Species Elphidiella hannai (Cushman & Grant, 1927)
- Species Elphidiella kerguelenensis (Parr, 1950)
- Species Elphidiella okhotica (Voloshinova & Kuznetsova, 1970)
- Species Elphidiella sibirica (Goës, 1894)
- Species Elphidiella biseripora Sun, 1991 accepted as Elphidiella biperforata (Whittaker & Hodgkinson, 1979) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Elphidiella brevicanalis Zheng, 1978 accepted as Emayerella brevicanalis (Zheng in Zheng et al., 1978) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Elphidiella brotzkajae Mayer, 1968 accepted as Emayerella brotzkajae (Mayer, 1968) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Elphidiella flos Troitskaya, 1973 accepted as Cryptoelphidiella hallandensis (Brotzen, 1943) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Elphidiella frigida (Cushman, 1933) accepted as Elphidium frigidum Cushman, 1933 accepted as Emayerella frigida (Cushman, 1933)
- Species Elphidiella gorbunovi (Shchedrina, 1946) accepted as Elphidiella groenlandica (Cushman, 1933) (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Polyak et al (2002))
- Species Elphidiella indopacifica Germeraad, 1946 accepted as Elphidium indopacificum (Germeraad, 1946) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Elphidiella kiangsuensis (He, Hu & Wang, 1965) accepted as Elphidiella frigida (Cushman, 1933) accepted as Elphidium frigidum Cushman, 1933 accepted as Emayerella frigida (Cushman, 1933) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Elphidiella nagaoi Asano, 1938 accepted as Elphidiella arctica (Parker & Jones, 1864) (junior synonym opinion of Scott et al. (2000))
- Species Elphidiella recens (Shchedrina, 1955) accepted as Elphidium oregonense Cushman & Grant, 1927 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Elphidiella tokyoensis Aoki in Iwabuchi et al., 1960 accepted as Elphidium somaense Takayanagi, 1955 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Elphidiella tumida Gudina, 1969 accepted as Elphidiella groenlandica (Cushman, 1933) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, Opinion of Knudsen in Feyling-Hansen et al. (1971))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Cushman, J. A. (1936). Some new species of Elphidium and related genera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research.</em> 12(4): 78-89., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/12cclfr4.pdf
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Elphidiella Cushman, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112161 on 2026-06-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Cushman, J. A. (1936). Some new species of Elphidium and related genera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research.</em> 12(4): 78-89., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/12cclfr4.pdf
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original description (of Pseudoelphidiella Voloshinova & Kuznetsova, 1970) Voloshinova, N. A.; Kuznetsova, V. N.; Leonenko, L. S. (1970). Фораминиферы неогеновых отложений Сахалина - Foraminifera from the Neogene deposits of Sakhalin. <em>Труды ВНИГРИ - Proceedings of the Oil Research Geological Institut (VNIGRI).</em> 284: 1-302., available online at http://books.google.com/books/about?id=0gRfDwAAQBAJ
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original description (of Saidovella Voloshinova & Kuznetsova, 1970) Voloshinova, N. A.; Kuznetsova, V. N.; Leonenko, L. S. (1970). Фораминиферы неогеновых отложений Сахалина - Foraminifera from the Neogene deposits of Sakhalin. <em>Труды ВНИГРИ - Proceedings of the Oil Research Geological Institut (VNIGRI).</em> 284: 1-302., available online at http://books.google.com/books/about?id=0gRfDwAAQBAJ
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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]
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[request]original description (of Pseudoelphidiella Voloshinova & Kuznetsova, 1970) Voloshinova, N. A.; Kuznetsova, V. N.; Leonenko, L. S. (1970). Фораминиферы неогеновых отложений Сахалина - Foraminifera from the Neogene deposits of Sakhalin. <em>Труды ВНИГРИ - Proceedings of the Oil Research Geological Institut (VNIGRI).</em> 284: 1-302., available online at http://books.google.com/books/about?id=0gRfDwAAQBAJ
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[request]original description (of Saidovella Voloshinova & Kuznetsova, 1970) Voloshinova, N. A.; Kuznetsova, V. N.; Leonenko, L. S. (1970). Фораминиферы неогеновых отложений Сахалина - Foraminifera from the Neogene deposits of Sakhalin. <em>Труды ВНИГРИ - Proceedings of the Oil Research Geological Institut (VNIGRI).</em> 284: 1-302., available online at http://books.google.com/books/about?id=0gRfDwAAQBAJ
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[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]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Holzmann, M.; Pawlowski, J. (2017). An updated classification of rotaliid foraminifera based on ribosomal DNA phylogeny. <em>Marine Micropaleontology.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2017.04.002
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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]
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Diagnosis Test large, planispiral, involute, and bilaterally symmetrical, from ten to twenty chambers in the final whorl, no true ponticuli or fossettes but may have retral processes, after the early chambers single or double rows of openings along the sutures open into subsutural canals between the septa and the septal flap of the following chamber, the subsutural canals connecting to the umbilical spiral canal system, sutural openings not homologous with the fossettes of Elphidium, vertical umbilical canals may also occur, periphery rounded; wall calcareous, perforate, optically radial or less commonly optically granular, bilamellar, septal flaps partly or completely overlapping the septa, surface smooth or may be pustulose; aperture and foramina interiomarginal, single or multiple, and may also have multiple areal openings. Paleocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Ecology Infaunal?, free; sand; detritivore?; S 30–35; cold; shelf. [details]
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