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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Cushman, J. A. (1924). Samoan foraminifera. <em>Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Marine Biology.</em> 21(342): 1-75. page(s): p. 11 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Polysiphotrocha Seiglie, 1964) Seiglie, G. A. (1964). New and rare foraminifers from Los Testigos reefs, Venezuela. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 4(4): 497-512. page(s): p. 500 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test trochospirally enrolled, attached by the umbilical side, and may be surrounded by a fine mud "puffermasse," chambers numerous, increasing gradually in size throughout the approximately three whorls, sutures curving back at the periphery, more oblique on spiral than umbilical side, chambers with umbilical extension on the umbilical side; wall agglutinated, thin, flexible; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical, terminal on the produced end of the chambers and facing the umbilicus. Holocene; Pacific, Marshall Islands; Atlantic, Brazilian shelf; Caribbean, off Venezuela; St. Croix. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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