Buliminid Snails

Buliminidae

Buliminidae (Buliminid Snails) is a family of foraminifers. Dead Buliminid Snails form calcareous oozes.

URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000046
Definition: Calcareous ooze is a marine sediment composed primarily of the shells--also known as tests--of foraminifera, coccolithophores, and pteropods. This is the most common pelagic sediment by area, covering 48% of the world ocean's floor. This type of ooze is limited to depths above the Carbonate Compensation Depth at time of burial. It accumulates more rapidly than any other pelagic sediment type, with a rate that varies from 0.3 - 5 cm / 1000 yr.

EOL has data for 25 attributes, including:

cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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unicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001994
- Definition: consisting of exactly one cell
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number of public records in bold
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
- Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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0
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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4140 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of buliminid snails. View this species on GBIF

The environments in which many buliminid snails species are known to live. Select an environment to see its buliminid snails species checklist.

The environments in which many buliminid snails species are known to live. Select an environment to see its buliminid snails species checklist.