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Foraminifera taxon details
original description
Zheng, S.-Y. (1979). The Recent foraminifera of the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. II. <em>Studia marina sinica.</em> 15: 101-232.
page(s): p. 134, 209 [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]
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 broadly ovate, chambers one-half coil in length and sigmoiline in arrangement in the somewhat inflated biconvex early stage, later planispiral and strongly compressed, with somewhat shorter but much broader chambers, final whorl commonly has three chambers, chambers with floors; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, surface may have fine longitudinal striae; aperture at the end of the final chamber, cribrate. L. Miocene (Burdigalian) to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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