Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Sellier de Civrieux, J. M. (1969). Cuatro géneros nuevos de foraminíferos del Mar Caribe. <em>Boletin del Instituto Oceanográfico. Universidad de Oriente. Cumaná.</em> 7[1968]: 149-193, pls. 1-10. page(s): p. 151 [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test small, up to 0.45 mm in length, elongate, compressed, narrowly oval in section, chambers broad, low, and oblique in the early stage, triserial at first, then biserial and finally uniserial and rectilinear, with chambers becoming proportionately somewhat higher, moderately inflated, widest near the base and slightly narrower distally, sutures oblique and straight in the early part, gently curved and arched at the midline in the uniserial part; wall calcareous, hyaline, transparent, optically radial, finely perforate, surface pustulose, knobby and spinose in the early stage, ornamentation in the later chambers restricted to the widest part of the chambers a short distance above the preceding suture; aperture terminal, oval, bordered with an everted lip and provided with an internal siphonlike toothplate that connects to the previous apertural foramen. Miocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific; Venezuela; Cuba. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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