WoRMS taxon details
Planulinoides Parr, 1941
465915 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465915)
accepted
Genus
Discorbina biconcava Parker & Jones in Carpenter et al., 1862 accepted as Planulinoides biconcavus (Parker & Jones, 1862) (type by original designation)
Discotruncana Shirai, 1960 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1987
- Species Planulinoides basilanensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Planulinoides biconcavus (Parker & Jones, 1862)
- Species Planulinoides bikiniensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Planulinoides galeroensis McCulloch, 1981
- Species Planulinoides hamasuturalis Kennett, 1967
- Species Planulinoides norcotti Hedley, Hurdle & Burdett, 1967
- Species Planulinoides planoconcava (Chapman, Parr & Collins, 1932)
- Species Planulinoides polymitarius Loeblich & Tappan, 1994
- Species Planulinoides srinivasani Gupta & Sen Gupta, 1993
- Species Planulinoides polymitaria Loeblich & Tappan, 1994 accepted as Planulinoides polymitarius Loeblich & Tappan, 1994
- Species Planulinoides rarescens (Brady, 1884) accepted as Planodiscorbis rarescens (Brady, 1884)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
masculine
Parr, W. J. (1941). A New Genus, Planulinoides, and some Species of Foraminifera from Southern Australia. <em>Mining and Geological Journal, Melbourne.</em> 2(5): 305., available online at https://gsv.vic.gov.au/searchAssistant/document.php?q=parent_id:9271 [details] Available for editors 
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Planulinoides Parr, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465915 on 2025-05-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Parr, W. J. (1941). A New Genus, Planulinoides, and some Species of Foraminifera from Southern Australia. <em>Mining and Geological Journal, Melbourne.</em> 2(5): 305., available online at https://gsv.vic.gov.au/searchAssistant/document.php?q=parent_id:9271 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Discotruncana Shirai, 1960) Shirai, T. (1960). New genus and species of foraminifera from the Pliocene formation, southwestern Hokkaido. <em>Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, ser. 4, Geology and Mineralogy.</em> 10: 537-543., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2115/35914
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[request]original description (of Discotruncana Shirai, 1960) Shirai, T. (1960). New genus and species of foraminifera from the Pliocene formation, southwestern Hokkaido. <em>Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, ser. 4, Geology and Mineralogy.</em> 10: 537-543., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2115/35914
page(s): p. 539 [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]
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Diagnosis Test ovate in outline, flat trochospiral, bievolute or only partly evolute on the umbilical side, about two rapidly enlarging whorls present, six to seven flattened to centrally excavated chambers in the final whorl, sutures oblique, strongly limbate, and elevated, periphery truncate, bicarinate; wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface smooth but with elevated sutures and peripheral keels and may have umbilical pustules or tubercles at the center of the umbilical side; primary aperture areal and equatorial, near the base of the apertural face, ranging from an oval to a short oblique slitlike opening bordered by a distinct lip, supplementary apertures at the umbilical margin of the chambers beneath slight umbilical flaps. Pliocene to Holocene; Australia; Japan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
