Diagnosis
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Test attached, occupying the empty tests of other foraminifers; globular to ovate or flask-shaped chambers with stoloniferous necks, uniserial or irregularly branching or closely piled upon adjacent chambers, depending on the available space; wall brownish, proteinaceous, imperforate; neck and aperture of final chamber may pierce the host shell. Holocene; Atlantic. (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.
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