G. testâ minutissimâ depressâ, tres quatuorve globulis formatâ; globulis undiquè puncticulatis; aperturâ rotundâ.
Nob. [nobiscum i.e. ourselves]
D'ORBIGNY, loc. cit. no, 8. [i.e. d'Orbigny 1826 Memoire sur les Céphalopodes, Ann. des Sc. nat. 7, p.277, no.8]
Coquille beaucoup plus petite que la précédente [G. bulloides], ayant à peine on cinquième de millimètre de longueur; elle est jaunâtre, composée de trois ou quatre globules bien séparés les uns des autres et formant un commencement de spirale trèsaplatie, un seul globule forme le sommet, les trois antres lui sont inférieurs; ils sont tous chagrinés et couverts de ponctuations éparses et nombreuses. La dernière loge, qui est la plus grande, est percée inférieurement d'une très-petite ouverture ronde , qui nous a paru placée plus exterieurement que dans l'espèce précédente. Ayant recueilli cette espèce dans les sables de Rimini, nous avons pensé que c'était celle que M. d'Orbigny avoit nommée Globigerina puncticulata, son nom et sa localité s'appliquant bien à elle.

When d'Orbigny (1826) published the name Globigerina punctulata he gave no indication of the nature of the species nor did he give any definition or description. Consequently, that publication of the name has no taxonomic status whatsoever. By Art. 21 of the "Regles Internationales de la Nomenclature Zoologique,"" 1905 (1953), the first author of a species name is that person who first publishes the name in connection with such an indication, definition or description provided that these indications are clearly the work of the author in question. The first description applicable to the species here described was that given by Deshayes in 1832 who considered it new and used the term ""nobis."" We have carefully checked as much as possible of the original first editions of the literature of the period concerned in order to confirm this. Although Deshayes (1832, p. 170) was clearly referring to d'Orbigny's species (he referred to ""no. 8"" of the list given in d'Orbigny 1826 under the heading Globigerina), his spelling of the name Globigerina puncticulata is the first and only valid spelling, and it must supplant the version ""punctulata"" invalidly proposed by d'Orbigny in 1826.
Deshayes (loc. cit.) obtained his specimens from Rimini and the d'Orbigny specimens must also be considered syntypic because of the reference by Deshayes to d'Orbigny's list number (i. e., G. punctulata) (R. V. Melville verb.).
A slide which originally contained seven specimens, all labelled ""Globigerina punctulata d'Orbigny (Subapennin) Rimini,"" is preserved in the Alcide d'Orbigny collections, Paris; only two of these seven specimens are weI! preserved and one of these (here illustrated and described, pI. 5, fig. 7) is here designated the lectotype of Globigerina puncticulata Deshayes 1832.
As the name Globigerina punctulata d'Orbigny became nominally valid with the first publication of d'Orbigny's drawing by Fornasini in 1899 and in order to avoid further taxonomic confusion we hereby designate that specimen which is here designated the lectotype of G. puncticulata Deshayes 1832 to be also the lectotype of Globigerina punctulata d'Orbigny 1899. Therefore Globigerina punctulata d'Orbigny 1899 becomes an absolute and objective junior synonym of Globigerina puncticulata Deshayes 1832.
We would like to especially thank Mr. R. V. Melville (Assistant Secretary to the I.C.Z.N.) for his verbal help in clarifying the complicated taxonomy involved in this particular case. [Banner & Blow 1960]

Remarks: The form recorded by Kane (1953, pI. 1, fig. 9) as this species is not clearly illustrated but does not seem to belong to the species puncticulata; Kane's specimens may belong to Globorotalia crassula Cushman and Stewart, and the forms illustrated by Phleger, Parker and Peirson (1953, pI. 4, figures 8-12) may also be referable to Cushman and Stewart's species.
The form illustrated by Brady (1884, pI. CIV, figs. 17a-c) belongs to the Discorbinae and not to the Globorotaliinae.
Globigerina puncticulata Deshayes 1832 appears to be consubgeneric with Globorotalia (Turborotalia) centralis Cushman and Bermudez and therefore should be referred to as Globorotalia (Turborotalia) puncticulata (Deshayes) (see Banner and Blow, 1959).We have observed this species in deposits of Pleistocene age in Sicily and in deposits from the same locality which may be Pliocene, as well as having seen it in collections from the recent seas. [Banner & Blow 1960]

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