Catalog - Bolivina globulosa Catalog - Bolivina globulosa

CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Bolivina globulosa Cushman, 1933

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Higher levels: pf_cat -> B -> Bolivina -> Bolivina globulosa
Other pages this level: B. daniana, B. globulosa, B. merecuanai, B. nairi, B. pseudoplicata, B. tokelauae

Bolivina globulosa

Citation: Bolivina globulosa Cushman, 1933
Taxonomic rank: species
Type specimens: USNM 26172
Type age (chronostrat): Recent
Type locality: Albatross station H3786, Lat. 12° 07' 00" N., Long. 137 18' 00" W., in 2,883 fathoms.
Type repository: Washington; USNM

Linked specimens: USNM-369338 USNM-26172

Current identification/main database link: Streptochilus globulosum (Cushman, 1933)


Original Description

Test small, elongate, tapering gradually from the subacute initial end to the greatest breadth formed by the last two chambers, periphery rounded; chambers inflated, more or less globose, increasing rather uniformly in size as added; sutures distinct, depressed, somewhat sigmoid, slanting backward but a small amount from the horizontal; wall smooth, finely perforate; aper­ture comparatively large, at the base of the last-formed chamber, and forming a loop-shaped opening.

Size:
Length of holotype 0.70 mm.; breadth 0.40 mm.; thickness 0.15 mm.

Extra details from original publication
This is a small species but is rather widely distributed in the Albatross collections.

References:

Cushman, J. A. (1933d). Some new Recent foraminifera from the Tropical Pacific. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. 9(4): 77-95. gs


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