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Current identification/main database link: Neoeponides auberii (d’Orbigny), 1839
Original Description
Coquille orbiculaire, trochiforme, carénée, conique en dessus, presque plane en dessous; perforée partout de trous assez grands, également espacés, et bordés d’un très léger bourrelet. Spire conique, élevée, à sommet peu aigu, composée de trois tours peu saillants les uns sur les autres, les sutures à peine marquées. Loges au nombre de quatre par tour, toutes très larges en dessus, en demi-cercle, très obliques, peu convexes, largement échancrées et séparées à leur point de jonction dans l’ombilic, où chacune forme une pointe libre. Ouverture occupant l’extrémité des loges tout autour de l’ombilic. Couleur. Sa teinte générale est jaunâtre, mais en dessus le jaune passe au rouge, qui devient de plus en plus intense en approchant du sommet de la spire.
[Google Translated from Latin]: Rosalina. Shell orbicular-conical, carinated, perforated above and below, yellowish-red; a conical spiral, with three sub-plane bends; with large, scaly pouches, through each whorl of quatrains.
[Google Translated from French]: Shell orbicular, trochiform, keeled, conical above, almost flat below; perforated everywhere with fairly large holes, equally spaced, and bordered by a very slight bead. Conical spire, elevated, with a not very sharp apex, composed of three turns not very prominent one above the other, the sutures barely marked. Lodges four in number per turn, all very wide above, in a semi-circle, very oblique, not very convex, widely indented and separated at their point of junction in the umbilicus, where each forms a free point. Opening occupying the end of the compartments all around the umbilicus. Color. Its general color is yellowish, but above the yellow changes to red, which becomes more and more intense as it approaches the top of the whorl.
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Extra details from original publication
[Google Translated from French]: No other species can be compared to this one by its trochoid shape, and its few cells per turn of the whorl. It is also one of those where the small holes in the shell are the most distinct. We noticed that it winds either to the right or to the left.
d'Orbigny, A. D. (1839b). Foraminifères. In, Sagra, R. de la (ed.) Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l’île de Cuba. A. Bertrand, Paris 1-224. gsReferences:

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