Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1962). Six new generic names in the Mycetozoida (Trichiidae) and Foraminiferida (Fischerinidae, Buliminidae, Caucasinidae and Pleurostomellidae) and a re-description of Loxostomum (Loxostomidae, new family). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 75: 107-113., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/44775#/summary page(s): p. 109 [details]
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]
redescription
Revets, S. A. (1991). The generic revision of the Reussellids (Foraminiferida). <em>Journal of Micropalaeontology.</em> 10(1): 1-15., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.10.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test pyramidal, triserial, and triangular in section throughout, sutures gently arched, limbate, angles carinate; wall calcareous, coarsely perforate, surface smooth other than the limbate sutures and carinate to rarely spinose margins; primary aperture a narrow elongate interiomarginal slit, with terminal rounded supplementary openings on the central part of the terminal face. Holocene; Pacific: Fiji. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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