WoRMS taxon details
Trifarina Cushman, 1923
112280 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112280)
accepted
Genus
Trifarina bradyi Cushman, 1923 (type by original designation)
Angulogerina Cushman, 1927 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym in...)
subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich & Tappan, 1964; majority of workers accept this synonymy today
Angulogerina (Trifarina) Hofker, 1956 · unaccepted (Nom. trans.)
- Species Trifarina agrestis (Todd, 1948)
- Species Trifarina albatrossi (Cushman, 1932)
- Species Trifarina angulosa (Williamson, 1858)
- Species Trifarina bella (Phleger & Parker, 1951)
- Species Trifarina borealis (Saidova, 1975)
- Species Trifarina bradyi Cushman, 1923
- Species Trifarina earlandi (Parr, 1950)
- Species Trifarina fluens (Todd in Cushman & McCulloch, 1948)
- Species Trifarina fornasinii (Selli, 1948)
- Species Trifarina gracilis (Vella, 1957)
- Species Trifarina hirsuta (Todd, 1948)
- Species Trifarina hughesi (Galloway & Wissler, 1927)
- Species Trifarina jamaicensis (Cushman & Todd, 1945)
- Species Trifarina japonica (Asano, 1938)
- Species Trifarina kokozuraensis (Asano, 1949)
- Species Trifarina lepida (Brady, 1881)
- Species Trifarina occidentalis (Cushman, 1923)
- Species Trifarina ornata (Cushman, 1932)
- Species Trifarina pacifica (Albani, 1974)
- Species Trifarina pauciporata (Hofker, 1956)
- Species Trifarina pauperata (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932)
- Species Trifarina picta (Todd, 1948)
- Species Trifarina reussii (Cushman, 1913)
- Species Trifarina selseyensis (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1909)
- Species Trifarina semitrigona (Galloway & Wissler, 1927)
- Species Trifarina spinipes (Brady, 1881)
- Species Trifarina vana (Todd, 1948)
- Species Trifarina vitrea (Saidova, 1975)
- Species Trifarina bradyana (Cushman, 1932) accepted as Trifarina angulosa (Williamson, 1858)
- Species Trifarina carinata (Cushman, 1927) accepted as Trifarina angulosa (Williamson, 1858) (Subjective junior synonym of Trifarina angulosa in opinion of Hayward et al. (2010))
- Species Trifarina elongatastriata (Colom, 1952) accepted as Rectuvigerina elongatastriata (Colom, 1952) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Trifarina galapagoensis (McCulloch, 1977) accepted as Trifarina pacifica (Albani, 1974)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Cushman, J. A. (1923). The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean pt. 4: Lagenidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (104): i-228., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7865468
page(s): p. 99 [details]
page(s): p. 99 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Trifarina Cushman, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112280 on 2025-05-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Cushman, J. A. (1923). The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean pt. 4: Lagenidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (104): i-228., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7865468
page(s): p. 99 [details]
original description (of Angulogerina (Trifarina) Hofker, 1956) Hofker, J. (1956). Foraminifera Dentata: Foraminifera of Santa Cruz and Thatch Island, Virginia Archipelago, West Indies. <em>Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis.</em> 15: 1-237. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Angulogerina Cushman, 1927) Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/3cclfr1.pdf
page(s): p. 69 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): p. 99 [details]
original description (of Angulogerina (Trifarina) Hofker, 1956) Hofker, J. (1956). Foraminifera Dentata: Foraminifera of Santa Cruz and Thatch Island, Virginia Archipelago, West Indies. <em>Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis.</em> 15: 1-237. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Angulogerina Cushman, 1927) Cushman, J. A. (1927). An outline of a re-classification of the Foraminifera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research.</em> 3(1): 1-105., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/3cclfr1.pdf
page(s): p. 69 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test elongate, sharply triangular in section and early stage triserial as in Angulogerina, later distinctly uniserial and rectilinear, angles sharp to longitudinally carinate, sutures slightly depressed to flush and thickened; wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture terminal, rounded, surrounded by a low collar and provided with a narrow siphonlike toothplate. Paleocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific; New Zealand; Egypt. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
