WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Scott, D. B. (1976). Brackish-water foraminifera from southern California and description of Polysaccammina ipohalina n. gen., n. sp. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 6(4): 312-321., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.6.4.312 page(s): p. 316 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test free, with irregularly globular chambers that increase in size with growth, aligned in a roughly uniserial, biserial, or wholly irregular series; wall with very thin inner organic layer and an outer homogeneous imperforate agglutinated layer of fine sand with rare larger grains, held in an organic cement; aperture terminal, rounded, bordered by an extension of the inner organic wall layer that projects over the apertural edge, apertural opening also may be closed within by a thin cover consisting of the inner organic layer. Holocene; USA: S. California; Canada: Prince Edward Island; Brazil: W. of Rio de Janeiro. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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