Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Discorboidea Ehrenberg, 1838

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RAS taxon details

Discorboidea Ehrenberg, 1838

AphiaID

465844 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465844)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Superfamily

Parent

Rotaliida

Original name

Discorboidea Ehrenberg, 1838

Synonymised names

Discorbacea Ehrenberg, 1838 · unaccepted

Direct children (4)

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Family Cancrisidae Chapman, Parr & Collins, 1934
Family Discorbidae Ehrenberg, 1838
Family Eponididae Hofker, 1951
Family Rosalinidae Reiss, 1963

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1838). Über dem blossen Auge unsichtbare Kalkthierchen und Kieselthierchen als Hauptbestandtheile der Kreidegebirge. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1838: 192-200., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11050066
page(s): p. 200.; note: Family. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2026). World Foraminifera Database. Discorboidea Ehrenberg, 1838. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2026) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465844 on 2026-09-24

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Species. Discorboidea Ehrenberg, 1838. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465844 on 2026-09-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-25 10:31:03Z

created

Hayward, Bruce W.

2013-03-08 14:25:27Z

changed

Hayward, Bruce W.

2026-06-15 16:50:47Z

changed

Le Coze, François

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original description Ehrenberg, C. G. (1838). Über dem blossen Auge unsichtbare Kalkthierchen und Kieselthierchen als Hauptbestandtheile der Kreidegebirge. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1838: 192-200., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11050066
page(s): p. 200.; note: Family. [details]

additional source 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

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Discorboidea)
To Genbank (from synonym Discorbacea Ehrenberg, 1838)
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