WoRMS taxon details
Rotaliammina Cushman, 1924
415938 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415938)
accepted
Genus
Rotaliammina mayori Cushman, 1924 (type by original designation)
Polysiphotrocha Seiglie, 1964 · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym in...)
Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)
- Species Rotaliammina adaperta (Rhumbler, 1938)
- Species Rotaliammina alliganta Mikhalevich, 1972
- Species Rotaliammina chitinosa (Collins, 1958)
- Species Rotaliammina concava (Seiglie, 1964)
- Species Rotaliammina fidicularis Brönnimann & Zaninetti, 1984
- Species Rotaliammina lavelaensis McCulloch, 1981
- Species Rotaliammina lecalvezae Vénec-Peyré, 1988
- Species Rotaliammina mayori Cushman, 1924
- Species Rotaliammina moneronensis Fursenko, 1979
- Species Rotaliammina neomayori McCulloch, 1981
- Species Rotaliammina petaloidea Brönnimann, Zaninetti & Whittaker, 1983
- Species Rotaliammina plana Zheng & Fu, 2001
- Species Rotaliammina sigmoidea Wells, 1985
- Species Rotaliammina siphonata (Seiglie, 1964)
- Species Rotaliammina squamiformis (Cushman & McCulloch, 1939)
- Species Rotaliammina trumbulli Seiglie, 1977
- Species Rotaliammina bartrami (Hedley, Hurdle & Burdett, 1967) accepted as Paratrochammina bartrami (Hedley, Hurdle & Burdett, 1967)
- Species Rotaliammina mayori Cushman Em. Loeblich & Tappan, 1955 accepted as Rotaliammina mayori Cushman, 1924
- Species Rotaliammina ochracea (Williamson, 1858) accepted as Lepidodeuterammina ochracea (Williamson, 1858)
- Species Rotaliammina rotaliformis (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1911) accepted as Deuterammina rotaliformis (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1911)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Cushman, J. A. (1924). Samoan foraminifera. <em>Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Marine Biology.</em> 21(342): 1-75.
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Type locality contained in Samoa Islands
type locality contained in Samoa Islands [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Rotaliammina Cushman, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415938 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
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.
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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
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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]
