WoRMS taxon details

Robertininae Reuss, 1850

720984  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:720984)

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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Robertininae Reuss, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720984 on 2024-04-19
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basis of record 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  PDF available [request] 
 
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Diagnosis Test predominantly dextrally coiled in a high trochospiral, numerous broad and low chambers subdivided by transverse partition formed by infolding of the outer wall, sutures oblique, slightly depressed; wall aragonitic, hyaline, optically radial, very finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture elongate, looplike, extending up the face of the final chamber, a small supplementary triangular opening on the opposite side of the test at the junction of the inner partition and previous septum, supplementary openings of earlier chambers closed as a new chamber is added. Paleocene to Holocene; Europe; North America; New Zealand; Atlantic; Pacific; Arctic; Antarctic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]