Diagnosis
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test elongate, flattened, ovate in section, chambers biserial and rectilinear throughout, increasing rapidly in height and becoming more inflated as added, later stage with nearly parallel margins, sutures oblique, depressed; wall calcareous, glossy, and opaque, finely perforate, surface smooth; aperture an elongate curved slit extending up the face of the final chamber parallel to the distal margin and bordered by a narrow lip, presence or nature of toothplate unknown. Holocene, at 1,720 m to 2,300 m; Pacific: Bikini Atoll. (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
