WoRMS taxon details
Elphidium lidoense Cushman, 1936
113275 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:113275)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Cushman, J. A. (1936). Some new species of Elphidium and related genera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research.</em> 12(4): 78-89., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/12cclfr4.pdf
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Elphidium lidoense Cushman, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=113275 on 2025-04-09
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Nomenclature
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Cushman, J. A. (1936). Some new species of Elphidium and related genera. <em>Contributions from the Cushman laboratory for foraminiferal research.</em> 12(4): 78-89., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/files/pubarchive/cclfr/12cclfr4.pdf
page(s): p. 86 pl. 15 fig. 6 [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]
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[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]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Poignant, A.; Mathieu, R.; Levy, A.; Cahuzac, B. (2000). Haynesina germanica (Ehrenberg), Elphidium excavatum (Terquem) l.s. and Porosononion granosum (d'Orbigny), marginal-littoral species of Foraminifera from the Central Aquitaine (SW France) in the Middle Miocene (Langhian). The problem of Elphidium lidoense Cushman. <em>Revue de Micropaléontologie.</em> 43(3): 393-405., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-1598(00)90200-9
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Darling, K. F.; Schweizer, M.; Knudsen, K. L.; Evans, K. M.; Bird, C.; Roberts, A.; Filipsson, H. L.; Kim, J.-H.; Gudmundsson, G.; Wade, C. M.; Sayer, M. D.; Austin, W. E. (2016). The genetic diversity, phylogeography and morphology of Elphidiidae (Foraminifera) in the Northeast Atlantic. <em>Marine Micropaleontology.</em> 129: 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2016.09.001 [details]
additional source Cushman, J. A. (1949). Recent Belgian Foraminifera. <em>Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.</em> Mémoire n° 111: 1-59., available online at http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/memoirs-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-first-series/111-1949
page(s): pl. 6 fig. 1; note: Cushman described a different species than his E. lidoense from 1936 according to Poignant et al. (2000) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Jorissen, F.J. 1988. Benthic foraminifera from the Adriatic Sea; principles of phenotypic variation. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins 37: 66-83., available online at http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/205896 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cushman, J. A. (1949). Recent Belgian Foraminifera. <em>Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.</em> Mémoire n° 111: 1-59., available online at http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/memoirs-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-first-series/111-1949
page(s): pl. 6 fig. 1; note: Cushman described a different species than his E. lidoense from 1936 according to Poignant et al. (2000) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Jorissen, F.J. 1988. Benthic foraminifera from the Adriatic Sea; principles of phenotypic variation. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins 37: 66-83., available online at http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/205896 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Poignant et al. studied Cushman original material (holo- and paratypes) and concluded that Elphidium lidoense Cushman, 1936, is a junior synonym of Nonionina granosa d'Orbigny. (both have a granular umbilical area, no ponticuli and no retral processes). E. lidoense was described from the Recent of Lido, Italy whereas E. granosum comes from the Miocene of the Vienna Basin. In 1949 Cushman figured a specimen from the coast of Belgium under the name of E. lidoense (but with different characteristics). Jorissen (1988) documented a morphological gradation in the Adriatic Recent from E. granosum f. lidoense, with a few, large glassy tubercles filling the umbilicus and circular test outline to E. granosum f. granosum that lacked the large umbilical tubercles and had a more lobulate outline, more wedge-shaped chambers and more biconvex profile.
Since 2010, DNA sequencing clearly indicates that the extent of morphological differences between the two end morphotypes in the Adriatic are those of genetically separate species. In this instance the "granosum" end member has not yet been sequenced but the "lidoense" morphotype has been sequenced and labelled S13 by Darling et al. (2013) who link its identification with Elphidium lidoense.
For the present it is considered best to recognise these as two distinct species. [details]
