RAS name details
Alterammina alternans (Earland, 1934)
398217 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398217)
unaccepted > junior homonym (Senior subjective synonym in opinion of Brönnimann and Whittaker (1988) but Primary junior homonym of Trochammina irregularis var. alternans Jones & Parker, 1860)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Earland, A. (1934). Foraminifera. Part III. The Falklands sector of the Antarctic (excluding South Georgia). <em>Discovery Reports, University Press, Cambridge.</em> 10 (1935): p 1-208.
page(s): p. 103, pl. 3, figs. 24-27. [details] Available for editors
page(s): p. 103, pl. 3, figs. 24-27. [details] Available for editors
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Alterammina alternans (Earland, 1934). Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/rest/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=398217 on 2025-09-11
RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Alterammina alternans (Earland, 1934). Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=398217 on 2025-09-11
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(of ) Earland, A. (1934). Foraminifera. Part III. The Falklands sector of the Antarctic (excluding South Georgia). <em>Discovery Reports, University Press, Cambridge.</em> 10 (1935): p 1-208.
page(s): p. 103, pl. 3, figs. 24-27. [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Cornelius, N.; Gooday, A. J. (2004). ‘Live'(stained) deep-sea benthic foraminiferans in the western Weddell Sea: trends in abundance, diversity, and taxonomic composition along a depth transect. <em>Deep-Sea Research II.</em> 51: 1571-1602. [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Brönnimann, P.; Whittaker, J. E. (1988). The Trochamminacea of the Discovery Reports. A Review of the Trochamminacea (Protozoa: Foraminiferida) described from South Atlantic and Antarctic waters by Heron-Allen & Earland (1932) and Earland (1933; 1934; 1936). <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 152 p. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Kaminski, M. A. (2000). The New and Reinstated Genera of Agglutinated Foraminifera published between 1986 and 1996. In: Hart, M.B.; Kaminski, M.A.; Smart, C.W. (Editors), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera. <em>Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication.</em> 185-219., available online at https://gf.tmsoc.org/Documents/Library/1996.pdf
page(s): p. 209, fig. 65. [details] Available for editors
page(s): p. 103, pl. 3, figs. 24-27. [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Cornelius, N.; Gooday, A. J. (2004). ‘Live'(stained) deep-sea benthic foraminiferans in the western Weddell Sea: trends in abundance, diversity, and taxonomic composition along a depth transect. <em>Deep-Sea Research II.</em> 51: 1571-1602. [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Brönnimann, P.; Whittaker, J. E. (1988). The Trochamminacea of the Discovery Reports. A Review of the Trochamminacea (Protozoa: Foraminiferida) described from South Atlantic and Antarctic waters by Heron-Allen & Earland (1932) and Earland (1933; 1934; 1936). <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 152 p. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Kaminski, M. A. (2000). The New and Reinstated Genera of Agglutinated Foraminifera published between 1986 and 1996. In: Hart, M.B.; Kaminski, M.A.; Smart, C.W. (Editors), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera. <em>Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication.</em> 185-219., available online at https://gf.tmsoc.org/Documents/Library/1996.pdf
page(s): p. 209, fig. 65. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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