Nouria sinensis Zheng & Fu, 2001

Lee, Sue Yeon, Yoo, Jung Sun & Kim, Seung Tae, 2017, Thirty new records of marine benthic Foraminifera from Korean waters, Journal of Species Research 6, pp. 75-93 : 82

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.12651/JSR.2017.6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13163258
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/152BAB17-FF9D-FF88-5C9F-FAD9CF2DFEC0
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Nouria sinensis Zheng & Fu, 2001
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9. Nouria sinensis Zheng & Fu, 2001 View in CoL ( Plate 2. 3 a-b)

Nouria sinensis Zheng & Fu, 2001 View in CoL , pp. 414, 415 (Chinese), 700 (English), pl. 59, figs. 8a-c (cited from Ellis & Messina, 1940).

Material examined. Korea, East Sea , station E4 (37°55 ʹ 4.816 ʺ N, 128°51 ʹ 11.786 ʺ E), 20 May 2016, by Van Veen Grab, collected by Raehyuk Jeong and Jisu Yeom. NIBR ID: NIBRPR0000107225 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Test free, elongated, and oval in section. Chambers in polymorphine arrangement then biserial, hard to distinguish, suture barely visible. Wall very thin but agglutinated with coarse grains. Aperture produced at terminal, consisted by fine particles, and long-slit like with slight lip.

Remarks. According to the original description, this species was first reported from the northern East China Sea, China ( Ellis & Messina, 1940). Prominent features of this species are elongated narrow test with greatest width near the middle part, and a slit-like aperture with finely agglutinated compressed lip. Our specimen has slightly more inflated test than the type specimen.

Distribution. Korea, East China Sea, China.