Foraminifera taxon details
Chitinosaccus Smitter, 1956
721565 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:721565)
accepted
Genus
Chitinosaccus zuluensis Smitter, 1956 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
Smitter, Y. H., 1956, Chitinosaccus, a new foraminiferal genus of the Allogromiidae from Santa Lucia Bay, Zululand, South African Journal of Science 52:258-259. , available online at https://journals.co.za/content/sajsci/52/11/AJA00382353_2199
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Diagnosis Test an elongate saclike chamber, 0.65 mm in length; wall proteinaceous, flexible, colorless to reddish-brown, with sparse...
Diagnosis Test an elongate saclike chamber, 0.65 mm in length; wall proteinaceous, flexible, colorless to reddish-brown, with sparse foreign particles attached to the exterior; aperture terminal, rounded; cytoplasm completely filling test; pseudopodia branching and anastomosing. Brackish water, sublittoral marine. Holocene; South Africa. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2024). World Foraminifera Database. Chitinosaccus Smitter, 1956. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=721565 on 2024-11-11
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original description
Smitter, Y. H., 1956, Chitinosaccus, a new foraminiferal genus of the Allogromiidae from Santa Lucia Bay, Zululand, South African Journal of Science 52:258-259. , available online at https://journals.co.za/content/sajsci/52/11/AJA00382353_2199
page(s): p. 285 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 [request]
page(s): p. 285 [details] Available for editors
[request]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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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Test an elongate saclike chamber, 0.65 mm in length; wall proteinaceous, flexible, colorless to reddish-brown, with sparse foreign particles attached to the exterior; aperture terminal, rounded; cytoplasm completely filling test; pseudopodia branching and anastomosing. Brackish water, sublittoral marine. Holocene; South Africa. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
