WoRMS taxon details
Alveolinidae Ehrenberg, 1839
- Genus Alveolinella H. Douvillé, 1907
- Genus Borelis Montfort, 1808
- Genus Clausulus Montfort, 1808 accepted as Borelis Montfort, 1808 (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 (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Genus Neoalveolina Silvestri, 1928 accepted as Borelis Montfort, 1808
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). 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 2024-04-19
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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 
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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]
