WoRMS taxon details
Biasterigerina Seiglie & Bermúdez, 1965
721508 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721508)
accepted
Genus
Asterigerina planorbis d'Orbigny, 1846 accepted as Discorbina planorbis (d'Orbigny, 1846) accepted as Biasterigerina planorbis (d'Orbigny, 1846) (type by original designation)
- Species Biasterigerina planorbis (d'Orbigny, 1846)
- Species Biasterigerina rosacea (d'Orbigny in Parker, Jones & Brady, 1865) accepted as Biasterigerina planorbis (d'Orbigny, 1846) (Opinion of Poignant (2017 pers. com.))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Seiglie, G. A., and P. J. Bermúdez, 1965, Observaciones sobre foraminiferos rotaliformes con camaras suplementarias o estructuras semejantes (1), Boletin del Instituto Oceanografico. Universidad de Oriente, Cumana 4:155-171.
page(s): p. 159 [details]
page(s): p. 159 [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Biasterigerina Seiglie & Bermúdez, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721508 on 2024-11-08
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original description
Seiglie, G. A., and P. J. Bermúdez, 1965, Observaciones sobre foraminiferos rotaliformes con camaras suplementarias o estructuras semejantes (1), Boletin del Instituto Oceanografico. Universidad de Oriente, Cumana 4:155-171.
page(s): p. 159 [details]
basis of record Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 159 [details]
basis of record Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Test of medium size, planoconvex, with conical spiral side showing all whorls, chambers broad, low, and crescentic and sutures flush and strongly oblique; on the flat umbilical side only the final whorl is visible, chambers lunate, the final one occupying up to one-third the surface, umbilical chamberlets narrow, elongate, and inflated, forming a stellate pattern but with irregular margins, the chamberlet covering the preceding aperture and extending along the suture nearly to the periphery, umbilicus depressed, sutures curved, oblique, and weakly depressed, periphery acutely angled and carinate; wall calcareous, finely perforate, keel and sutures on spiral side imperforate, surface with granules and pustules just below the aperture on the previous whorl; primary aperture a broad low interiomarginal arch, extending from the umbilicus nearly to the periphery, only a small part remaining open as the next supplementary chamber is added. Paleocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
