Foraminifera taxon details
Mucronina Ehrenberg, 1839
465884 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465884)
accepted
Genus
Nodosaria (Mucronine) hasta d'Orbigny, 1826 † accepted as Mucronina hasta d'Orbigny in Parker, Jones & Brady, 1865 † (type by subsequent monotypy)
Nodosaria (Mucronine) d'Orbigny, 1826 † · unaccepted (Name not available ICZN Art. 11 (b)(i))
Nuttallus Saidova, 1981 † · unaccepted
Plectofrondicularia (Proxifrons) Hornibrook, 1971 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Proxifrons Vella, 1963 · unaccepted
- Species Mucronina acuta (Cushman & Stainforth, 1945) †
- Species Mucronina alazanensis (Cushman, 1927) †
- Species Mucronina antillana (Palmer & Bermúdez, 1936) †
- Species Mucronina billmani (Rau, 1951) †
- Species Mucronina compressa (Costa, 1855) †
- Species Mucronina dentifera (Cushman & Stainforth, 1947) †
- Species Mucronina dumontana (Reuss, 1861) †
- Species Mucronina flabelliformis (Guppy, 1894) †
- Species Mucronina hasta d'Orbigny in Parker, Jones & Brady, 1865 †
- Species Mucronina helenae (Chapman, 1941) †
- Species Mucronina hornibrooki Hayward, 2012 †
- Species Mucronina jarvisi (Cushman & Todd, 1945) †
- Species Mucronina longissima (Silvestri, 1900) †
- Species Mucronina miocenica (Cushman, 1926) †
- Species Mucronina monacantha (Reuss, 1850) †
- Species Mucronina notoensis (Asano, 1953) †
- Species Mucronina packardi (Cushman & Schenck, 1928) †
- Species Mucronina peruviana (Cushman & Stone, 1947) †
- Species Mucronina resigae Hayward, 2012
- Species Mucronina seminuda (Reuss, 1851) †
- Species Mucronina silvestriana (Thalmann, 1952) †
- Species Mucronina spatulata (Costa, 1855) †
- Species Mucronina striata (d'Orbigny, 1826) †
- Species Mucronina trilineata (Cushman, 1927) †
- Species Mucronina vaughani (Cushman, 1927) †
- Species Mucronina vokesi (Cushman, Stewart & Stewart, 1949) †
- Species Mucronina advena (Cushman, 1923) † accepted as Mucronina compressa (Costa, 1855) † (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Hayward et al. (2012))
- Species Mucronina gemina (Silvestri, 1872) † accepted as Mucronina hasta d'Orbigny in Parker, Jones & Brady, 1865 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mucronina javana (Boomgaart, 1949) † accepted as Proxifrons javana (Boomgaart, 1949) accepted as Mucronina advena (Cushman, 1923) † accepted as Mucronina compressa (Costa, 1855) †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
page(s): Chart opp. p. 64 [details]
page(s): Chart opp. p. 64 [details]
Diagnosis Test narrow, elongate, compressed, laterally carinate, chambers uniserial and rectilinear, sutures straight and horizontal;...
Diagnosis Test narrow, elongate, compressed, laterally carinate, chambers uniserial and rectilinear, sutures straight and horizontal; wall calcareous, hyaline, perforate, optically radial, surface ornamented with numerous longitudinal striae and the lateral keels; aperture terminal, produced on a neck. Miocene to Holocene; Adriatic; Italy. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Mucronina Ehrenberg, 1839. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465884 on 2026-04-27
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Ehrenberg, C.G. (1839). Die Bildung der europäischen, libyschen und arabischen Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels aus mikroskopischen Organismen. 1-91, pls. 1-4. Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin., available online at https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/102621
page(s): Chart opp. p. 64 [details]
original description (of Proxifrons Vella, 1963) Vella, P. (1963). Some Foraminifera from the Upper Miocene and Pliocene of Wairarapa, New Zealand. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Geology).</em> 2(1): 1-14., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19630220.2.2 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Nodosaria (Mucronine) d'Orbigny, 1826 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> vol. 7: 96-169, 245-314., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959
page(s): p. 256 [details]
original description (of Nuttallus Saidova, 1981 †) Saidova, K. M. (1981). О современном состоянии системы надвидовых таксонов кайнозойских бентосных фораминифер - [On an up-to-date system of supraspecific taxonomy of Cenozoic benthonic foraminifera]. <em>Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 1-73., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=h-jxnSjjmhQC
page(s): p. 38 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Plectofrondicularia (Proxifrons) Hornibrook, 1971) Hornibrook, N. deB. (1971). Revision of the Oligocene and Miocene foraminifera from New Zealand, described by Karrer and Stache in the reports of the "Novara" Expedition (1864). <em>New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontology Bulletin.</em> [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Hayward, B.W., Kawagata, S., Sabaa, A.T., Grenfell, H.R., van Kerckhoven, L., Johnson, K., and Thomas, E., 2012. The last global extinction (Mid-Pleistocene) of deep-sea benthic foraminifera (Chrysalogoniidae, Ellipsoidinidae, Glandulonodosariidae, Plectofrondiculariidae, Pleursostomellidae, Stilostomellidae), their Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic history and taxonomy: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication, v. 43, p. 408., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256078664 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Ehrenberg, C.G. (1840). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. <em>Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> [1838]: 59-147., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29017435
page(s): Chart opp. p. 120 [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 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): Chart opp. p. 64 [details]
original description (of Proxifrons Vella, 1963) Vella, P. (1963). Some Foraminifera from the Upper Miocene and Pliocene of Wairarapa, New Zealand. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Geology).</em> 2(1): 1-14., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TRSGEO19630220.2.2 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Nodosaria (Mucronine) d'Orbigny, 1826 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1826). Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> vol. 7: 96-169, 245-314., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5753959
page(s): p. 256 [details]
original description (of Nuttallus Saidova, 1981 †) Saidova, K. M. (1981). О современном состоянии системы надвидовых таксонов кайнозойских бентосных фораминифер - [On an up-to-date system of supraspecific taxonomy of Cenozoic benthonic foraminifera]. <em>Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 1-73., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=h-jxnSjjmhQC
page(s): p. 38 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Plectofrondicularia (Proxifrons) Hornibrook, 1971) Hornibrook, N. deB. (1971). Revision of the Oligocene and Miocene foraminifera from New Zealand, described by Karrer and Stache in the reports of the "Novara" Expedition (1864). <em>New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontology Bulletin.</em> [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hayward, B.W., Kawagata, S., Sabaa, A.T., Grenfell, H.R., van Kerckhoven, L., Johnson, K., and Thomas, E., 2012. The last global extinction (Mid-Pleistocene) of deep-sea benthic foraminifera (Chrysalogoniidae, Ellipsoidinidae, Glandulonodosariidae, Plectofrondiculariidae, Pleursostomellidae, Stilostomellidae), their Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic history and taxonomy: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication, v. 43, p. 408., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256078664 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ehrenberg, C.G. (1840). Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. <em>Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> [1838]: 59-147., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29017435
page(s): Chart opp. p. 120 [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 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test narrow, elongate, compressed, laterally carinate, chambers uniserial and rectilinear, sutures straight and horizontal; wall calcareous, hyaline, perforate, optically radial, surface ornamented with numerous longitudinal striae and the lateral keels; aperture terminal, produced on a neck. Miocene to Holocene; Adriatic; Italy. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]