Foraminifera taxon details

Donsissonia McCulloch, 1977

722244  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722244)

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Donsissonia florae McCulloch, 1977 (type by original designation)

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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  PDF available [request] 
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Donsissonia McCulloch, 1977. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722244 on 2024-03-29
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original description 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  PDF available [request] 

basis of record 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 planoconvex with low trochospiral coil of about two and a half gradually expanding whorls, spiral side convex and evolute, with curved and oblique sutures, umbilical side flat to concave and involute, six to seven chambers in the final whorl, sutures straight, radiate, and depressed, central area of the umbilical side excavated and umbilicus small and open, periphery narrowly rounded, peripheral outline weakly lobulate; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture interiomarginal, extending from the umbilicus nearly to the periphery. Holocene; at 41 m, off Peru. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]