WoRMS taxon details
Asarotammina Brönnimann, 1986
738031 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738031)
accepted
Genus
Asarotammina asarotum Brönnimann, 1986 (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Brönnimann, P. (1986). Asarotammina, a new trochamminid genus from the Brazilian shelf. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 16(2): 89-97., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.16.2.89
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Asarotammina Brönnimann, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738031 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Brönnimann, P. (1986). Asarotammina, a new trochamminid genus from the Brazilian shelf. <em>The Journal of Foraminiferal Research.</em> 16(2): 89-97., available online at https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.16.2.89
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Diagnosis Test in a low trochospiral coil, large oval proloculus with spoutlike aperture followed by about two whorls of rapidly enlarging chambers, ten to eleven chambers in the final whorl, sutures slightly depressed, strongly oblique on the spiral side, radial on the centrally depressed umbilical side; wall agglutinated, noncanaliculate, with organic inner layer, and thin agglutinated layer of calcareous grains; aperture a single high interiomarginal arch, midway between umbilicus and periphery, with smoothly finished border. Holocene; Brazilian Shelf, S. Atlantic, warm, shallow water. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
