WoRMS taxon details
Alveolinidae Ehrenberg, 1839
414753 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:414753)
accepted
Family
- Genus Alveolinella H. Douvillé, 1907
- Genus Borelis Montfort, 1808
- Genus Clausulus Montfort, 1808 accepted as Borelis Montfort, 1808 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Genus Melonia Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Borelis Montfort, 1808 (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Genus Melonites Lamarck, 1812 accepted as Borelis Montfort, 1808 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Genus Neoalveolina Silvestri, 1928 accepted as Borelis Montfort, 1808
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
note: Chart opp. p. 64. Note: Introduced as family "Alveolinea" (Familia XII). [details]
note: Chart opp. p. 64. Note: Introduced as family "Alveolinea" (Familia XII). [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Alveolinidae Ehrenberg, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=414753 on 2026-05-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
note: Chart opp. p. 64. Note: Introduced as family "Alveolinea" (Familia XII). [details]
note: Chart opp. p. 64. Note: Introduced as family "Alveolinea" (Familia XII). [details]
Other
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 
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additional source Ehrenberg, C.G. (1840). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. <em>Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> [1838]: 59-147., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29017435
note: Chart opp. p. 120. Note: Introduced as family "Alveolinea" (Familia XII). [details]
[request]additional source Ehrenberg, C.G. (1840). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. <em>Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> [1838]: 59-147., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29017435
note: Chart opp. p. 120. Note: Introduced as family "Alveolinea" (Familia XII). [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, commonly large, globular, fusiform, or subcylindrical, coiled about elongate axis; proloculus followed by flexostyle, then quinqueloculine in microspheric juvenile stage, adult planispiral; chambers numerous, and divided by secondary partitions or septulae into one or more layers of chamberlets that parallel the direction of coiling; numerous apertures in one or more rows, or rarely fused into a slit. L. Cretaceous (Aptian) to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
