WoRMS taxon details
Keramosphaera Brady, 1882
520849 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:520849)
accepted
Genus
Keramosphaera murrayi Brady, 1882 (type by monotypy)
Arbulinarium Rhumbler, 1913 · unaccepted (Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987)
Orbulinaria Rhumbler, 1906 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Brady, H. B. (1882). Note on Keramosphæra, a new type of porcellanous Foraminifera. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 10(57): 242-245., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51244260
page(s): p. 242 [details]
page(s): p. 242 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Keramosphaera Brady, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=520849 on 2025-05-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Brady, H. B. (1882). Note on Keramosphæra, a new type of porcellanous Foraminifera. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 10(57): 242-245., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51244260
page(s): p. 242 [details]
original description (of Arbulinarium Rhumbler, 1913) Rhumbler, L. (1913). Die Foraminiferen (Talamophoren) der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich Entwurf eines natürlichen Systems der Foraminiferen auf Grund selektionistischer und mechanisch-physiologischer Faktoren. Zweiter Teil : Systematik. <em>Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung.</em> Bd.3 L.c.: 332-476., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2124278 [details]
original description (of Orbulinaria Rhumbler, 1906) Rhumbler, L. (1906). Die Foraminiferen von Laysan und den Chatham-Inseln. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 24(1): 21-80., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10097811#page/31/
page(s): p. 23 [details]
page(s): p. 242 [details]
original description (of Arbulinarium Rhumbler, 1913) Rhumbler, L. (1913). Die Foraminiferen (Talamophoren) der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich Entwurf eines natürlichen Systems der Foraminiferen auf Grund selektionistischer und mechanisch-physiologischer Faktoren. Zweiter Teil : Systematik. <em>Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung.</em> Bd.3 L.c.: 332-476., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2124278 [details]
original description (of Orbulinaria Rhumbler, 1906) Rhumbler, L. (1906). Die Foraminiferen von Laysan und den Chatham-Inseln. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 24(1): 21-80., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10097811#page/31/
page(s): p. 23 [details]
Other
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 globular, up to 2.5 mm in diameter, nature of earliest stage unknown, later with small, inflated, and irregular or meandriform chamberlets added in concentric spherical series, those of a single layer interconnected by short lateral stolons and those of successive series not regularly aligned or alternating; wall calcareous, porcelaneous; aperture of pores at the margin of the chambers, previous ones remaining as intercameral connections between chamberlets of successive concentric layers. Holocene; S. Atlantic; S. Indian Ocean, at about 3,600 m; Pacific off Japan; North Sea. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
