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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Saunders, J. B. (1957). Trochamminidae and certain Lituolidae (foraminifera) from the Recent brackish-water sediments of Trinidad, British West Indies. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 134: 1-16., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/22940 page(s): p. 11 [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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test free, trochospiral, flattened, chambers increasing rapidly in size as added, sutures strongly oblique on spiral side and may be depressed, resulting in a lobulate outline, only four to five chambers visible on umbilical side, the final one occupying much of the umbilical surface and appearing T-shaped because of its pronounced umbilical lobe; wall finely agglutinated, thin and fragile, brown in color, darker in the early whorl, surface smoothly finished; aperture at the end of the umbilical chamber lobe and directed either into the umbilicus or backward toward the earlier chambers, may be partially covered by a shelflike lip. Holocene; Caribbean, E. coast of Trinidad. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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