Lepidodeuterammina, Bronnimann and Whittaker, 1983

Camacho, S, Moura, D, Connor, S, Scott, DB & Boski, T, 2015, Taxonomy, ecology and biogeographical trends of dominant benthic foraminifera species from an Atlantic-Mediterranean estuary (the Guadiana, southeast Portugal), Palaeontologia Electronica 52 (4), pp. 1-37 : 20

Genus LEPIDODEUTERAMMINA Brönnimann and Whittaker, 1983

Lepidodeuterammina plymouthensis Brönnimann and Whittaker, 1990

Figure 3.3-3.4

1974 Trochammina rotaliformis (Wright) ; Lévy, Mathieu, Poignant, Rosset-Molinier and Rouvillois, p. 128, pl. 1, figs. 4, 5.

1981 Trochammina rotaliformis (Wright) ; Todd and Low, p. 18.

1990 Lepidodeuterammina plymouthensis Brönnimann and Whittaker : p. 117-118, pl. 3, figs. 1-14.

2004 Lepidodeuterammina plymouthensis Brönnimann and Whittaker ; Martins and Gomes, p. 31, fig. 2.13.

Morphological description. The wall is thin and agglutinated; test is low trochospirally enrolled and concavo-convex; sutures are radial and the periphery is rounded.

Occurrence. Very rare in the living assemblages.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Scanning electron and light microscope micrographs of the foraminifera specimens. Scale bar equals 100 µm except where noted otherwhise; 1-2- Jadammina macrescens (Brady, 1870); 1- supplementary apertures view; 2- detail of supplementary apertures (scale bar = 50 µm); 3-4- Lepidodeuterammina plymouthensis Brönnimann and Whittaker, 1990; 3- dorsal view; 4- ventral view; 5-8- Lepidodeuterammina ochracea (Williamson, 1858); 5- dorsal view; 6- ventral view; 7- dorsal view of a smaller specimen; 8- ventral view of a smaller specimen; 9-10- Portatrochammina sp.; 9- dorsal view; 10- ventral view; 11-13- Siphotrochammina sp.; 11- dorsal side with inter-cameral foramen view; 12- dorsal view of a smaller specimen, also with inter-cameral foramen; 13- ventral view of a smaller specimen; 14-16- Tiphotrocha comprimata Saunders, 1957; 14- dorsal view; 15- ventral view; 16- individual strongly attached to a sea-grass leaf; detail of a Pinus pollen grain at the center of the leaf; 17-21- Trochammina inflata (Montagu, 1808); 17- dorsal view; 18- ventral view; 19- ventral view with umbilical tube detail; 20- microspheric form dorsal view; 21- microspheric form ventral view; 22- Eggerelloides scaber (Williamson, 1858); 23-25- Textularia earlandi Parker, 1952; 23- apertural view; 24- lateral view; 25- profile view with aperture in detail; 26-29- Discorinopsis aguayoi (Bermúdez, 1935); 26- scanning electron dorsal view; 27- scanning electron ventral view; 28- light microscope dorsal view; 29- light microscope ventral view.