Foraminifera taxon details
Tetrataxiella Seiglie, 1964
739146 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739146)
accepted
Genus
Tetrataxiella ayalai Seiglie, 1964 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Seiglie, G. A. (1964). Algunos foraminíferos arenaceos recientes de Venezuela. <em>Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de la Universidad de Oriente.</em> 3(1-2): 5-12., available online at https://iov-udo.com/revista/index.php/boletin57-1/issue/view/13
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Diagnosis Test free, elongate conical, quadriserial, chambers inflated and strongly overlapping, so that final whorl occupies...
Diagnosis Test free, elongate conical, quadriserial, chambers inflated and strongly overlapping, so that final whorl occupies one-half the test length, interior simple; wall agglutinated, surface smoothly finished except for frequent large grains of quartz or shell fragments; aperture a low interiomarginal arch, opening into the umbilicus. Holocene: Caribbean: NE Venezuela. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Tetrataxiella Seiglie, 1964. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739146 on 2026-09-05
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Seiglie, G. A. (1964). Algunos foraminíferos arenaceos recientes de Venezuela. <em>Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de la Universidad de Oriente.</em> 3(1-2): 5-12., available online at https://iov-udo.com/revista/index.php/boletin57-1/issue/view/13
page(s): p. 9 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): p. 9 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test free, elongate conical, quadriserial, chambers inflated and strongly overlapping, so that final whorl occupies one-half the test length, interior simple; wall agglutinated, surface smoothly finished except for frequent large grains of quartz or shell fragments; aperture a low interiomarginal arch, opening into the umbilicus. Holocene: Caribbean: NE Venezuela. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
