Foraminifera taxon details
Spirolocammina Earland, 1934
737423 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:737423)
accepted
Genus
- Species Spirolocammina exigua Burmistrova, 1978
- Species Spirolocammina petrae Siemensma, Baković & Holzmann, 2025
- Species Spirolocammina planula Eicher, 1960 †
- Species Spirolocammina tenuis Earland, 1934
- Species Spirolocammina subcircularis (Tappan, 1957) † accepted as Psamminopelta subcircularis Tappan, 1957 † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Earland, A. (1934). Foraminifera. Part III. The Falklands sector of the Antarctic (excluding South Georgia). <em>Discovery Reports, University Press, Cambridge.</em> 10[1935]: 1-208. [details] Available for editors 
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Diagnosis Test free, minute, elongate, flattened, coiling nearly planispiral, two chambers per whorl, but with a slight sigmoiline...
Diagnosis Test free, minute, elongate, flattened, coiling nearly planispiral, two chambers per whorl, but with a slight sigmoiline curve in the long axis; wall thin, very finely agglutinated in an organic matrix, insoluble in acid, surface smoothly finished; aperture produced slightly on a neck, without a tooth. Holocene, from 3,264 m to 4,517 m; Antarctic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Spirolocammina Earland, 1934. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737423 on 2025-11-14
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Earland, A. (1934). Foraminifera. Part III. The Falklands sector of the Antarctic (excluding South Georgia). <em>Discovery Reports, University Press, Cambridge.</em> 10[1935]: 1-208. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, minute, elongate, flattened, coiling nearly planispiral, two chambers per whorl, but with a slight sigmoiline curve in the long axis; wall thin, very finely agglutinated in an organic matrix, insoluble in acid, surface smoothly finished; aperture produced slightly on a neck, without a tooth. Holocene, from 3,264 m to 4,517 m; Antarctic. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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