Nomenclature
original description
Carpenter, W. B.; Parker, W. K.; Jones, J. R. (1862). Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera. 319 pp. The Ray Society, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37432
page(s): p. 184 [details] 
basis of record
Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test globular to slightly compressed, planfspiral and involute, three to six moderately inflated chambers in the final whorl, sutures radial, flush to slightly depressed; wall calcareous, optically granular, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture a narrow interiomarginal crescentic slit, extending across the periphery to the umbilici. U. Cretaceous to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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