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 Cancris auriculus (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) Figure 8.3-4 1798 Nautilus auricula Fichtel and Moll , p. 108, pl. 20, figs. a-c. 2001 Cancris auriculus (Fichtel and Moll) ; Szarek, p. 132, pl. 19, figs. 1-3. 2003 Cancris auricula (Fichtel and Moll) ; Murray, p. 19, fig. 6.6-7. 2010 Cancris auriculus (Fichtel and Moll) ; Margreth, p. 28, pl. 29, fig. 10a-c. 2012 Cancris auriculus (Fichtel and Moll) ; Debenay, p. 189. 2012 Cancris auriculus (Fichtel and Moll) ; Milker and Schmiedl, p. 93, fig. 21.14-15. 2014 Cancris auriculus (Fichtel and Moll) ; Panchang and Nigam, pl. 28, fig. 27a-c. Description. Test biconvex, outline auriculate, cross section lenticular, wall calcareous, perforate, umbilical area imperforate; surface smooth; chambers rapidly increasing in size, trochospirally arranged, coiling evolute on the spiral side, involute on the umbilical side; peripheral margin carinate and acute, sutures curved and slightly depressed on the spiral side, radial and much depressed on the umbilical side; aperture an interiomarginal, umbilical, slit-like opening with a broad apertural flap.