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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/811
journal article
10.26879/811
1094-8074
10961656
Calcarina spengleri
(Gmelin, 1791)
Figure 6.1-2
1788
Nautilus spengleri
Gmelin
, p. 3371.
2005
Calcarina spengleri
(Gmelin)
; Renema and Hohenegger, p. 16, pl. 1, figs. 1-10; text-fig. 1.
2014
Calcarina spengleri
(Gmelin)
; Panchang and Nigam, pl. 37, figs. 9a-b, 10a-b.
Description.
Test large, biconvex, side view lenticular, wall calcareous, coarsely perforate, surface ornamented with few, granulated calcitic knobs in the centre; chambers many, final chambers long, narrow and inflated, chamber arrangement trochospiral; periphery with long, tapering, blunt spines; sutures distinct only in the final chambers, slightly depressed on the spiral side, radial and depressed on the umbilical side; aperture not seen.