WoRMS taxon details
Asterigerinatidae Reiss, 1963
- Genus Asterigerinata Bermúdez, 1949
- Genus Biasterigerina Seiglie & Bermúdez, 1965
- Genus Dublinia McCulloch, 1977
- Genus Eoeponidella Wickenden, 1949
- Genus Hubbardina McCulloch, 1977
- Genus Mullinoides McCulloch, 1977
- Genus Pninaella Brotzen, 1948
- Genus Asterellina Anderson, 1963 accepted as Eoeponidella Wickenden, 1949 (Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987))
- Genus Carlfranklinia McCulloch, 1977 accepted as Dublinia McCulloch, 1977 (subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
- Genus Eoponidella accepted as Eoeponidella Wickenden, 1949
- Genus Heminwayina Bermúdez, 1951 accepted as Eoeponidella Wickenden, 1949 (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Reiss, Z. (1963). Reclassification of perforate foraminifera. <em>Bull. Geol Surv. Israel.</em> 35: 1-111. [details] Available for editors 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Asterigerinatidae Reiss, 1963. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=111908 on 2025-07-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Reiss, Z. (1963). Reclassification of perforate foraminifera. <em>Bull. Geol Surv. Israel.</em> 35: 1-111. [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
[request]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]
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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 small, trochospiral, planoconvex, with flattened spiral side of two to two and a half whorls, chambers progressively broader as added, and later chambers crescentic, sutures depressed, curved, and oblique, umbilical side moderately to strongly convex, with centrally depressed umbilicus, sutures radial but largely obscured by the addition of rhomboidal and inflated coverplates over the aperture and sutures, forming a central stellate area on the umbilical side, periphery acutely angled to subcarinate; wall calcareous, perforate, no surface ornamentation; aperture a high interiomarginal arch, umbilical in position, the secondarily formed coverplate leaving open only a low slit. M. to U. Eocene; Mexico; Cuba; USA: California; Pakistan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
