WoRMS taxon details
Soritinae Ehrenberg, 1839
721181 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721181)
accepted
Subfamily
- Genus Amphisorus Ehrenberg, 1839
- Genus Marginopora Quoy & Gaimard in Blainville, 1830
- Genus Sorites Ehrenberg, 1839
- Genus Taramellina Munier-Chalmas, 1902 accepted as Sorites Ehrenberg, 1839 (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987))
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
page(s): Chart opp. p. 64. [details]
page(s): Chart opp. p. 64. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Soritinae Ehrenberg, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721181 on 2026-06-15
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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
page(s): Chart opp. p. 64. [details]
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
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page(s): Chart opp. p. 64. [details]
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
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Proloculus and flexostyle followed by numerous later chambers in arcuate or annular series, stolons connecting those of successive series but chambers of a single series not connected. L. Eocene to Holocene. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
