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 Asterorotalia pulchella (d’Orbigny, 1839a) Figure 3.17-18 1839a Rotalia (Calcarina) pulchella d’Orbigny , p. 80, pl. 5, figs. 16-18. 2001 Asterorotalia pulchella (d’Orbigny) ; Szarek, p. 147, pl. 27, figs. 11-12. 2015 Asterorotalia pulchella (d’Orbigny) ; Hanagata and Nobuhara, p. 119, figs. 35.9-10. Description. Test small, outline nearly triangular, wall calcareous, perforate, surface strongly ornamented with knobs, pustules and ridges; chambers many, gradually increasing in size as added; periphery with imperforate keel and long triradiate spines, sutures nearly straight, raised and limbate on the dorsal side, radial and slightly curved on the ventral side; aperture an equatorial, terminal, ovate opening on the apertural side.