Diagnosis
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test unilocular, ovate to elongate, moderately compressed, carinate; wall calcareous, hyaline, surface smooth; aperture rounded to elliptical, subterminal, at the junction of carina and chamber body, the carina projecting above the opening on the dorsal margin, entosolenian tube attached to the dorsal wall and may flare within. Pleistocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific; Mediterranean. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
