WoRMS taxon details
Lorettaoides McCulloch, 1977
721981 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721981)
accepted
Genus
Lorettaoides cartagoensis McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)
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. Lorettaoides McCulloch, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721981 on 2025-05-02
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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]
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 [request]
[request]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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Diagnosis Test large, about 1.1mmin maximum diameter, ovate in outline, strongly compressed, periphery subacute, early chambers apparently quinqueloculine in arrangement, later planispiral with four broad and rapidly enlarging chambers per whorl; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, surface smooth and polished; aperture a high narrow and slitlike opening at the end of the final chamber, with the lateral margins curving inward. Holocene; Pacific: Galapagos Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
