Taxonomic notes on Recent Foraminifera from the Continental Shelf-Slope Region of Southwestern Bay of Bengal, East Coast of India Author Symphonia, Tabita K. Author Senthil, Nathan D. text Palaeontologia Electronica 2019 55 A 2019-09-30 22 3 1 89 http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/811 journal article 10.26879/811 1094-8074 10961656 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny, 1826 Figure 11.22 1826 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny , p. 280, pl. 14, figs. 4-6. 2002 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny ; Kaminski, Aksu, Box, Hiscott, Filipescu, and Al-Salameen, p. 176, pl. 4, fig. 3a-b. 2006 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny ; Oflaz, p. 299, pl. 8, figs. 14-15. 2012 Planorbulina mediterranensis d’Orbigny ; Milker and Schmiedl, p. 108, fig. 24.21-14. Description. Test attached, outline circular, slightly convex on the spiral side, flat on the umbilical side, wall calcareous, coarsely perforate, surface with pustules; chamber arrangement trochospiral initially, later arranged in a circular plan; periphery lobulated, sutures depressed on the dorsal side, thick, imperforate and limbate on the ventral side; primary aperture interiomarginal, two openings diametrically placed on chamber ends, bordered by a lip, secondary extraumbilical openings. Superfamily CHILOSTOMELLOIDEA Brady, 1881 Family ANOMALINIDAE Cushman, 1927 Genus RIMINOPSIS Revets, 1996 Riminopsis asterizans (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) Figure 12.5 1798 Nautilus asterizans Fichtel and Moll , p. 37, pl. 3, figs. c-h. 1999 Nonion asterizans (Fichtel and Moll) ; Nigam and Khare, p. 298, pl. 6, fig. 3. 2014 Nonion asterizans (Fichtel and Moll) ; Panchang and Nigam, pl. 33, fig. 7a-b. Description. Test symmetrical, outline circular, side view rounded, wall calcareous, finely perforate, surface smooth, umbilical region depressed, ornamented with granular pustules, pustules also along the sutures and the apertural face; chambers many, broad and low, chamber arrangement planispiral, coiling involute or slightly evolute; periphery angular, sutures distinct, slightly depressed and curved; aperture interiomarginal, short, narrow or rounded opening.