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 Sphaeroidinella dehiscens (Parker and Jones, 1865) Figure 14.9-10 1865 Sphaeroidinella bulloides d’Orbigny var. dehiscens Parker and Jones , p. 369, pl. 19, fig. 5a-b. 2010 Sphaeroidinella dehiscens (Parker and Jones) ; Ovechkina, Bylinskaya, and Uken, p. 248, fig. 9F, 9G. Description. Test large, ovoid, outline weakly lobulate, wall calcareous, coarsely perforate, surface smooth and glossy in adults; chambers globular, rapidly increasing in size as added, chamber arrangement trochospiral, coiling tight, periphery broadly rounded, sutures depressed initially, later obscured by surface cortex in adults; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical in juveniles, slit-like in adults, with a continuous crenulated lip along the cortical margins.