Foraminifera taxon details
Tosaia Takayanagi, 1953
416079 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:416079)
accepted
Genus
Tosaia hanzawai Takayanagi, 1953 (type by original designation)
- Species Tosaia hanzawai Takayanagi, 1953
- Species Tosaia loeblichi Souaya, 1966 †
- Species Tosaia lowmani Seiglie & Bermúdez, 1969
- Species Tosaia symmetrica McCulloch, 1977
- Species Tosaia weaveri Seiglie & Bermúdez, 1967
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Takayanagi, Y. (1953). New genus and species of foraminifera found in the Tonohama group, Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan. <em>Short papers from the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University, Sendai.</em> 5: 25-36.
page(s): p. 30 [details]
page(s): p. 30 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Tosaia Takayanagi, 1953. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=416079 on 2024-04-24
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2009-09-23 14:01:30Z
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original description
Takayanagi, Y. (1953). New genus and species of foraminifera found in the Tonohama group, Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan. <em>Short papers from the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku University, Sendai.</em> 5: 25-36.
page(s): p. 30 [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
page(s): p. 513; note: Miocene to Holocene [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 30 [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
page(s): p. 513; note: Miocene to Holocene [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test small, flaring, chambers globular and inflated and sutures depressed in the adult, three chambers per whorl in the early stage but later may be reduced to two per whorl; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, optically granular, surface smooth and polished; aperture a short curved slit near the base of the apertural face, with narrow bordering lip on the upper margin but no internal toothplate. M. Miocene to Holocene; Japan; Pacific: off Panama; Egypt. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]