WoRMS taxon details
Fredsmithia McCulloch, 1977
527059 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527059)
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Genus
Fredsmithia sanclementensis McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)
Fredsmithoides McCulloch, 1977 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym in...)
subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Fredsmithia ceratiformis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Fredsmithia laevigata (Seiglie, 1964)
- Species Fredsmithia minuta McCulloch, 1977
- Species Fredsmithia odettae McCulloch, 1977
- Species Fredsmithia redacta (McCulloch, 1977)
- Species Fredsmithia sanclementensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Fredsmithia catalinaensis (McCulloch, 1977) accepted as Fredsmithia laevigata (Seiglie, 1964) (subjective junior synonym in opinion of S. Kawagata (pers comm 2015))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Fredsmithia McCulloch, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527059 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Fredsmithoides McCulloch, 1977) McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Fredsmithoides McCulloch, 1977) McCulloch, I. (1977). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests with emphasis on the eastern Pacific. University of Southern California. Los Angeles., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=tPw_AAAAIAAJ [details] Available for editors
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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 elongate ovate in outline, ovate in section, trochospirally enrolled, with chambers increasing rapidly in breadth but slowly in height, extending far back proximally on the inside of the coil so that the spiral side has an astacoline appearance but final chamber reaches nearly to the proloculus on the umbilical side, thus is opposed to all earlier chambers along the elongate umbilical groove, periphery rounded to subangular at the margins; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture an interiomarginal and umbilical loop, bordered by a few straight and radiating grooves that extend to the peripheral margin of the flattened apertural face. Holocene; Mexico; USA: off California, San Clemente, Santa Rosa, and Catalina Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
