Nomenclature
original description
Rhumbler, L. (1906). Die Foraminiferen von Laysan und den Chatham-Inseln. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 24(1): 21-80., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10097811#page/31/
page(s): p. 25 [details] 
original description
(of Tubinellina Wiesner, 1931) Wiesner, H. (1931). Die Foraminiferen der deutschen Südpolar Expedition 1901-1903. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, Berlin (Zoology).</em> 20: 53-165. [details]
original description
(of Falsotubinella Bogdanovich & Mikhalevich, 1983) Mikhalevich, V. I. (1983). The bottom foraminifera from the shelves of the tropical Atlantic. <em>USSR Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute.</em> 1-247.
page(s): p. 102 [details]
original description
(of Artubinum Rhumbler, 1913) Rhumbler, L. (1913). Die Foraminiferen (Talamophoren) der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich Entwurf eines natürlichen Systems der Foraminiferen auf Grund selektionistischer und mechanisch-physiologischer Faktoren. Zweiter Teil : Systematik. <em>Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung.</em> Bd.3 L.c.: 332-476., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2124278 [details]
Other
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Diagnosis Test small, elongate, may be loosely attached at the base to the substrate by means of an organic adhesive material, early ovoid stage of two closely appressed chambers of onehalf coil in length, later uncoiled and rectilinear to slightly arcuate, with short tubular chambers; wall calcareous, imperforate, porcelaneous, surface smooth or longitudinally costate, wall ultrastructure shows an outer layer of longitudinally arranged calcite needles, a middle layer of randomly arranged needlelike crystals, and an inner layer of tangentially aligned crystals; aperture at the open end of the chamber. Pleistocene to Holocene; Indian Ocean; Pacific; Atlantic; West Indies; Antarctic; Mediterranean. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
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