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Foraminifera name details

Orbiculina adunca (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)

Orbiculina adunca

AphiaID

528521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:528521)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Rogl & Hansen (1984))

Accepted name

Archaias angulatus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)

Rank

Species

Parent

Orbiculina Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Archaias Montfort, 1808

Original name

Nautilus aduncus Fichtel & Moll, 1798

Synonymised names

Nautilus aduncus Fichtel & Moll, 1798 · unaccepted (foraminifer erroneously described...)

foraminifer erroneously described in a mollusc genus

Orbitolites adunca (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) · unaccepted

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Variety Orbiculina adunca var. flabelliformis Lister, 1903
Variety Orbiculina adunca var. nummismalis Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Archaias angulatus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Nautilus aduncus Fichtel & Moll, 1798) Fichtel, L.v.; Moll, J.P.C.. (1798). Testacea microscopia, aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilus, ad naturam delineata et descripta. A. Pichler, Wien. xii + 123 pp., 24 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10295#/summary [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2021). World Foraminifera Database. Orbiculina adunca (Fichtel & Moll, 1798). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528521 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-10-05 06:59:02Z

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Hayward, Bruce W.

2010-12-22 03:33:46Z

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Hayward, Bruce W.

2012-11-13 12:52:00Z

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Hayward, Bruce W.

2013-08-11 03:50:01Z

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Hayward, Bruce W.

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original description (of Nautilus aduncus Fichtel & Moll, 1798) Fichtel, L.v.; Moll, J.P.C.. (1798). Testacea microscopia, aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilus, ad naturam delineata et descripta. A. Pichler, Wien. xii + 123 pp., 24 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10295#/summary [details]

basis of record Rögl, F.; Hansen, H. J. (1984). Foraminifera described by Fichtel & Moll in 1798. A revision of Testacea Microscopica. Neue Denkschriften des Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien. 3: 1-143. [details] Available for editors