WoRMS taxon details
Homalohedra Patterson & Richardson, 1987
465891 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465891)
accepted
Genus
Lagena guntheri Earland, 1934 accepted as Homalohedra guntheri (Earland, 1934) (type by original designation)
- Species Homalohedra apiopleura (Loeblich & Tappan, 1953)
- Species Homalohedra bassensis (Collins, 1974)
- Species Homalohedra guntheri (Earland, 1934)
- Species Homalohedra liratiformis (McCulloch, 1977)
- Species Homalohedra williamsoni (Alcock, 1865)
- Species Homalohedra acuticosta (Reuss, 1862) accepted as Oolina acuticosta (Reuss, 1862) (unaccepted > misapplication, Not the species described by Reuss but later representations)
- Species Homalohedra costata (Williamson, 1858) accepted as Oolina borealis Loeblich & Tappan, 1954 (E. costata is a secondary junior homonym of Oolina costata Egger, 1857)
- Species Homalohedra isabella (d'Orbigny, 1839) accepted as Oolina isabella d'Orbigny, 1839
- Species Homalohedra borealis (Loeblich & Tappan, 1954) represented as Oolina borealis Loeblich & Tappan, 1954
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
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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Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Homalohedra Patterson & Richardson, 1987. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465891 on 2025-07-07
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
original description Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description Patterson, R. T.; Richardson, R. H. (1988). Eight New Genera of Unilocular Foraminifera. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 107: 240-258., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270179352
page(s): p. 251 fig. 34-36 48, 49; note: Given as new. [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test unilocular but double specimens may occur, ovate to pyriform, circular in section; wall calcareous, hyaline, translucent, surface with a few heavy longitudinal ribs that extend up the wall from a circular ring near the test base to merge into a ringlike collar just below the apertural neck; aperture rounded at the end of the brief smooth neck, provided with a short, straight entosolenian tube. Pleistocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
