WoRMS taxon details
Sestronophora Loeblich & Tappan, 1957
526994 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:526994)
accepted
Genus
Sestronophora arnoldi Loeblich & Tappan, 1957 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1957). Eleven New Genera of Foraminifera. <em>Bulletin United States National Museum.</em> 215: 223-232., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32376730
page(s): p. 229 [details]
page(s): p. 229 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Sestronophora Loeblich & Tappan, 1957. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=526994 on 2025-05-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1957). Eleven New Genera of Foraminifera. <em>Bulletin United States National Museum.</em> 215: 223-232., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32376730
page(s): p. 229 [details]
page(s): p. 229 [details]
Other
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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Diagnosis Test large, up to 2 mm in diameter, trochospirally coiled and planoconvex, strongly convex spiral side with broad crescentic chambers and thickened, flush, and oblique sutures, somewhat flattened umbilical side with depressed radial sutures around the broad umbilicus that is covered by a series of plates arising from the umbilical margin of each chamber, periphery acute to carinate; wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture a low slitlike interiomarginal opening on the umbilical side, accompanied by a few supplementary rounded pores near the base of the apertural face, numerous large rounded to irregular accessory openings also pierce the umbilical plate to open into the umbilicus and connect to the various chamber cavities. Pliocene to Pleistocene; USA: California; England. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
