WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Finlay, H. J. (1939). New Zealand Foraminifera: Key Species in Stratigraphy - No. 1. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 68: 504-533., available online at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_68/rsnz_68_04_003710.html page(s): p. 520 [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
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test lenticular, biconvex, trochospiral, about three whorls visible on the spiral side, chambers broad and low, crescentic, sutures strongly oblique, limbate, and curving into the peripheral keel, only the seven to eight subtriangular chambers of the final whorl visible on the umbilical side, sutures gently curved, slightly depressed, and nearly radial around the clear imperforate umbilical boss, interior of chambers subdivided by a plate that extends diagonally from the septal foramen toward the peripheral apertural notch but does not connect to the opposite wall to form a chamberlet, periphery with imperforate carina, peripheral outline slightly lobulate; wall calcareous, optically radial, perforate, septa and keel imperforate; aperture interiomarginal, extending from the umbilical boss nearly to the peripheral keel, with a small notch parallel to the plane of coiling. U. Paleocene (Landenian) to U. Eocene (Priabonian); Mexico; New Zealand; S. Pacific: Tonga; Holocene, bathyal: Atlantic and Pacific. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Grammatical gender Nuttallides is masculine.
ICZN art. 30.1.4.4. A compound genus-group name ending in the suffix -ites, -oides, -ides, -odes, or -istes is to be treated as masculine unless its author, when establishing the name, stated that it had another gender or treated it as such by combining it with an adjectival species-group name in another gender form. [details]
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