Foraminifera taxon details

Milesina McCulloch, 1981

527034  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527034)

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Genus
Milesia differens McCulloch, 1977 accepted as Milesina differens (McCulloch, 1977) (type by original designation)
Mccullochella Özdikmen, 2009 · unaccepted (Unnecessary new replacement name)
Milesia McCulloch, 1977 · unaccepted (Junior homonym of Milesia...)  
Junior homonym of Milesia Larreille, 1804

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McCulloch, I. (1981). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests. Part IV with emphasis on the Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition Collections. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 362 p. 72 pls.
page(s): p. 6 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Milesina McCulloch, 1981. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527034 on 2024-03-29
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2010-09-25 05:43:40Z
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original description McCulloch, I. (1981). Qualitative observations on Recent foraminiferal tests. Part IV with emphasis on the Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition Collections. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 362 p. 72 pls.
page(s): p. 6 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Milesia 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
page(s): p. 307 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Mccullochella Özdikmen, 2009) Özdikmen, H. (2009). Substitute names for some unicellular animal taxa (Protozoa). <em>Munis Entomology & Zoology.</em> 4(1): 233-256., available online at http://www.munisentzool.org/yayin/vol4/issue2/MEZVol4No2.pdf
page(s): p. 242 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [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  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Test ovate in outline, low trochospiral and planoconvex, flattened side showing all chambers of the one to one and a half whorls, sutures curved and flush, convex side involute, showing only the two to three and a half rapidly enlarging semicircular chambers of the final whorl and the straight and flush sutures, periphery angular, with broad imperforate carinal band; wall calcareous, hyaline, distinctly perforate except for the peripheral band, surface smooth; aperture in a loop that extends from the umbilicus up the face of the final chamber on the flat side of the test, apparently bordered by a scroll-like pillar, those of earlier chambers also remaining open, the scrolls of the various apertures may be visible through the transparent test from the opposite side. Holocene, 20 m to 40 m; Philippines. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]