Benthic Foraminifera from the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Author
Mamo, Briony L.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4215
1
1
123
journal article
37169
10.11646/zootaxa.4215.1.1
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1175-5326
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B91D1782-C11A-4CDC-96B6-76104FEE51BD
Guttulina
sp. 1 (
Fig. 17
:8, 9)
Remarks.
Specimens were only tentatively assigned to
Guttulina
due to the heavily damaged state of all specimens leaving distinguishing features incomplete or broken. In spite of this, the oval test with enlongated chambers, inflated aboral end and rounded peripheries (
Fig. 17
:8, 9) suggests an affinity with
Guttulina
. The test tapers towards the oral end and the terminal aperture consists of slit-like radial openings atop a thickened neck (
Fig. 17
:9). Collected specimens bear a strong resemblance to
Glandulina
? sp. cf.
G
.
laevigata
of
Parker (2009)
particularly in regards to the elongate, tapering test shape and radiating, slit-like apertures but lacks a tapered base and uniserial chamber arrangement necessary for
Glandulina
.
Distribution within study area.
Guttulina
sp. 1 was collected in low numbers (one to eight speicmens) at sites 52 and
53 in
One Tree Lagoon 2 and the channel sample between Wistari and Heron Reefs.