Diagnosis
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test unilocular, elongate, quadrate to rectangular in section, with sharp to carinate angles; wall calcareous, hyaline to translucent, finely perforate, surface smooth to finely and discontinuously longitudinally ribbed; aperture rounded on a short neck and provided with a short straight entosolenian tube. Miocene to Holocene; Atlantic; Pacific; Antarctic. (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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