Foraminifera taxon details
Orbitina Sellier de Civrieux, 1977
527026 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527026)
accepted
Genus
Orbitina carinata Sellier de Civrieux, 1977 (type by original designation)
Crouchina McCulloch, 1977 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym in...)
subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Sellier de Civrieux; J.M. (1977). Las Discorbidae de Mar Caribe frente a Venezuela. <em>Cuadernos Oceanográficos, Universidad de Oriente.</em> 6: 1-46. [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Orbitina Sellier de Civrieux, 1977. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527026 on 2024-04-19
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Sellier de Civrieux; J.M. (1977). Las Discorbidae de Mar Caribe frente a Venezuela. <em>Cuadernos Oceanográficos, Universidad de Oriente.</em> 6: 1-46. [details]
original description (of Crouchina McCulloch, 1977) 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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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 [request]
original description (of Crouchina McCulloch, 1977) 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] 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 planoconvex, low trochospiral, circular in outline, chambers very broad, low, and crescentic and sutures strongly oblique, slightly curved, and elevated on the convex spiral side, sutures curved and slightly depressed on the flattened to concave umbilical side, with triangular umbilical flap or folium from each chamber surrounding the small open umbilicus and forming small foliar chamberlets, periphery subacute, carinate; wall calcareous, hyaline, translucent, spiral side very finely perforate but perforations imperceptible on the umbilical side, surface smooth other than the elevated sutures and keel on the spiral side; primary aperture interiomarginal, extraumbilical, anterior to the folium, with secondary sutural apertures at the posterior side of the folium. Holocene; Caribbean; E. Pacific: off Galapagos Islands. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]