WoRMS name details
Pacinonion Vella, 1962
556153 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:556153)
unaccepted (subjective junior synonym by popular opinion and usage)
Genus
Astrononion novozealandicum Cushman & Edwards, 1937 (type by original designation)
Astronoides Burmistrova, 1974 · unaccepted (Name not available ICZN Art. 13(a)(i))
Astronoides Saidova, 1975 · unaccepted (Shares the same type species as...)
Shares the same type species as Pacinonion Vella, 1962
- Species Pacinonion minutus Ujiié, 1995 accepted as Astrononion minutum (Ujiié, 1995)
- Species Pacinonion novozealandicum (Cushman & Edwards, 1937) accepted as Astrononion novozealandicum Cushman & Edwards, 1937 (Unaccepted genus)
- Species Pacinonion viragoensis (Cushman & Edwards, 1937) accepted as Astrononion viragoensis Cushman & Edwards, 1937 accepted as Astrononion viragoense Cushman & Edwards, 1937
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Vella, P. (1962). Late Tertiary Nonionid Foraminifera from Wairarapa, New Zealand. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Geology).</em> 1(20): 285-296., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19621031.2.2, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/transactions-of-the-royal-society-of-new-zealand-geology/1962/10/31 [details] Available for editors 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Pacinonion Vella, 1962. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556153 on 2026-08-19
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Vella, P. (1962). Late Tertiary Nonionid Foraminifera from Wairarapa, New Zealand. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Geology).</em> 1(20): 285-296., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19621031.2.2, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/transactions-of-the-royal-society-of-new-zealand-geology/1962/10/31 [details] Available for editors [request]
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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 [request]
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Diagnosis Test large, up to 1.1 mm in diameter, planispiral and biumbilicate, robust, nearly circular in outline, numerous chambers enlarging gradually as added, sutures curved, partly covered by narrow parallel-sided sutural tubes that extend from the umbilical margin of the chamber nearly two-thirds the distance to the periphery where they open to the exterior, periphery broadly rounded; wall calcareous, optically granular, perforate, surface smooth; aperture interiomarginal, equatorial, and extending to the umbilical margin, each sutural tube with a semicircular opening facing the periphery. U. Eocene to Holocene; New Zealand; W. Pacific. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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