WoRMS taxon details
Rotaliella Grell, 1954
146265 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146265)
accepted
Genus
Rotaliella heterocaryotica Grell, 1954 (type by original designation)
- Species Rotaliella antarctica Pawlowski, Zaninetti, Whittaker & Lee, 1992
- Species Rotaliella arctica (Scott & Vilks, 1991)
- Species Rotaliella chasteri (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1913)
- Species Rotaliella elatiana Pawlowski & Lee, 1992
- Species Rotaliella grelli Pawlowski & Lee, 1991
- Species Rotaliella heronalleni Pawlowski, Zaninetti, Whittaker & Lee, 1992
- Species Rotaliella heterocaryotica Grell, 1954
- Species Rotaliella nana Pawlowski & Lee, 1991
- Species Rotaliella petalorbis Sellier de Civrieux, 1991
- Species Rotaliella roscoffensis Grell, 1956
- Species Rotaliella rugosa Pawlowski & Zaninetti, 1993
- Species Rotaliella sabaae Kawagata, 2016
- Species Rotaliella simplex (Sidebottom, 1909)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Grell, K. G., (1954), Die Generationswechsel der polythalamen Foraminifere Rotaliella heterocaryotica, Archiv für Protistenkunde 100: 268-286
page(s): p. 269 [details]
page(s): p. 269 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Rotaliella Grell, 1954. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146265 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Grell, K. G., (1954), Die Generationswechsel der polythalamen Foraminifere Rotaliella heterocaryotica, Archiv für Protistenkunde 100: 268-286
page(s): p. 269 [details]
basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): p. 269 [details]
basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
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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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

From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test tiny, to 0.06 mm in diameter, trochospiral with about one and a half whorls, oval proloculus followed by smaller hourglasslike second chamber, and later inflated chambers, three to four in the final whorl, chambers appearing hemispherical on the spiral side, globular on the umbilical side, sutures depressed, periphery broadly rounded, peripheral margin lobulate; wall calcareous, very thin, hyaline, finely perforate, optically radial, surface smooth; aperture umbilical in position, with denticulate umbilical margin; living specimens with few thin pseudopodia, heterokaryotic agamont with single vegetative nucleus and three generative nuclei, asexual reproduction producing twelve embryonic gamonts, adult gamont mononucleate, producing ten to twenty-four amoeboid gametes, those of a single parent may fuse in autogamy. Holocene; Yugoslavia; France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]