dcsimg

Diagnosis

provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test elongate ovate or sausage-shaped, 0.6 mm to 2 mm in length, 0.09 mm to 0.5 mm in breadth; wall of two more or less separated semitransparent proteinaceous membranes, outer membrane may be partly separated from the cytoplasm as a sticky coat to which detrital particles adhere to give an uneven surface; single wide aperture; cytoplasm with numerous inclusions, pseudopodial cytoplasm differentiated from that of main body; one to three nuclei; asexual reproduction by multiple fission, sexual reproduction unknown. Marine, on soft muddy bottom at 100 to 118 m; Holocene. Sweden: Gullmar Fjord. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)

Reference

Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.

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