WoRMS taxon details
Cassidulinoidea d'Orbigny, 1839
465820 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465820)
accepted
Superfamily
Serioidea Holzmann & Pawlowski, 2017 · unaccepted (Serioidea does not comply with...)
Serioidea does not comply with ICZN as it has no type genus. It includes Cassidulinidae which is in the superfamily Cassidulinoididae which is considered the senior synonym (Hayward pers. comm. 2019)
- Family Cassidulinidae d'Orbigny, 1839
- Family Globobuliminidae Hofker, 1951
- Family Hooperellidae Clark, 1994
- Family Sphaeroidinidae Cushman, 1927
- Family Uvigerinidae Haeckel, 1894
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1839). Foraminifères, in de la Sagra R., Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba. <em>A. Bertrand.</em> 1-224., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=KpVeAAAAcAAJ&pg
page(s): p. 114. [details]
page(s): p. 114. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Cassidulinoidea d'Orbigny, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465820 on 2026-07-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1839). Foraminifères, in de la Sagra R., Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba. <em>A. Bertrand.</em> 1-224., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=KpVeAAAAcAAJ&pg
page(s): p. 114. [details]
page(s): p. 114. [details]
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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 enrolled biserial or may be secondarily uncoiled; wall calcareous, perforate, optically radial or granular; aperture an interiomarginal slit, or may become terminal, may have bordering lip or flap, and may have tooth plate. Paleocene to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
