WoRMS taxon details
Placopsilina d'Orbigny, 1850
112265 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112265)
accepted
Genus
Placopsilina scorpionis d'Orbigny, 1850 † (type by monotypy)
Lituola (Placopsilina) Brady, 1881 · unaccepted (Nom. transl.)
- Species Placopsilina bifurca Loeblich & Tappan, 1994
- Species Placopsilina bradyi Cushman & McCulloch, 1939
- Species Placopsilina cenomana d'Orbigny, 1850
- Species Placopsilina glabra Mikhalevich, 1973
- Species Placopsilina kingsleyi Siddall, 1886
- Species Placopsilina spongiphila Guilbault, Krautter, Conway & Barrie, 2006
- Species Placopsilina aurantiaca (Earland, 1934) accepted as Placopsilinella aurantiaca Earland, 1934
- Species Placopsilina bulla (Brady, 1881) accepted as Tholosina bulla (Brady, 1881) (unaccepted > superseded combination, Opinion of Rhumbler (1895), Parr (1950))
- Species Placopsilina confusa Cushman, 1920 accepted as Tholosina confusa (Cushman, 1920) (superseded original combination)
- Species Placopsilina vesicularis Brady, 1879 accepted as Tholosina vesicularis (Brady, 1879)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1850-1852). <i>Prodrome de paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés, faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques</i>. Paris: Masson. vol. 1 [January 1850 ("1849")]: lx + 394 pp.; vol. 2 [November 1850]: 427 pp.; vol. 3 [1852]: 196 pp. + Table alphabétique et synonymique des genres et des espèces: 189 pp; addenda, errata, Table of Contents: unpaginated., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.45605
page(s): vol. 1 p. 259 [details]
page(s): vol. 1 p. 259 [details]
Note The subsequent designation of P. cenomana...
From editor or global species database
Type species The subsequent designation of P. cenomana d'Orbigny, 1850 as type species by Cushman (1920) is incorrect. P. scorpionis d'Orbigny, 1850 is the type species by monotypy (see Hodgkinson 1992). [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Placopsilina d'Orbigny, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112265 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1850-1852). <i>Prodrome de paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés, faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques</i>. Paris: Masson. vol. 1 [January 1850 ("1849")]: lx + 394 pp.; vol. 2 [November 1850]: 427 pp.; vol. 3 [1852]: 196 pp. + Table alphabétique et synonymique des genres et des espèces: 189 pp; addenda, errata, Table of Contents: unpaginated., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.45605
page(s): vol. 1 p. 259 [details]
original description (of Lituola (Placopsilina) Brady, 1881) Brady, H. B. (1881). Notes on some of the Reticularian Rhizopoda of the "Challenger" Expedition. Part III. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> (2) 21 (81): 31-71., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13808725 [details]
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]
page(s): vol. 1 p. 259 [details]
original description (of Lituola (Placopsilina) Brady, 1881) Brady, H. B. (1881). Notes on some of the Reticularian Rhizopoda of the "Challenger" Expedition. Part III. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> (2) 21 (81): 31-71., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13808725 [details]
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]
Other
subsequent type designation
Hodgkinson, R. L. (1992). 'Placopsilina' cenomana d'Orbigny from France and England and the type species of Placopsilina d'Orbigny, 1850 (Foraminiferida). <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology.</em> 48(1): 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36621619
note: The subsequent designation of P. cenomana d'Orbigny, 1850 as type species by Cushman (1920) is incorrect. P. scorpionis d'Orbigny, 1850 is the type species by monotypy (see Hodgkinson 1992). [details]
note: The subsequent designation of P. cenomana d'Orbigny, 1850 as type species by Cushman (1920) is incorrect. P. scorpionis d'Orbigny, 1850 is the type species by monotypy (see Hodgkinson 1992). [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test attached, early stage planispirally enrolled, later uncoiling and rectilinear; wall agglutinated, simple in structure; aperture terminal, rounded, may be bordered by a slight lip. M. Jurassic to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]Type species The subsequent designation of P. cenomana d'Orbigny, 1850 as type species by Cushman (1920) is incorrect. P. scorpionis d'Orbigny, 1850 is the type species by monotypy (see Hodgkinson 1992). [details]
Unreviewed
classification Also in database as valid genus in Allogramiidae - needs checking [details]
