Buliminella elegantissima ( d’Orbigny, 1839b )

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 : 23

Buliminella elegantissima ( d’Orbigny, 1839b)

Figure 4.5

1839b Bulimina elegantissima d’Orbigny : p. 51,

pl. 7, figs. 13, 14.

1953 Buliminella elegatissima (d’ Orbigny) ;

Parker, Phleger and Pierson, p. 6, pl. 4,

figs. 8, 9.

1971 Buliminella elegatissima (d’ Orbigny) ; Murray, p. 105, pl. 42, figs. 1-4.

1980 Buliminella elegatissima (d’ Orbigny) ;

Scott, Schafer and Medioli, p. 226, pl. 3,

figs. 1, 2.

1994 Buliminella elegatissima (d’ Orbigny) ;

Jones, p. 55, pl. 50, figs. 20-22.

2003 Buliminella elegatissima (d’ Orbigny) ;

Duleba and Debenay, p. 77, pl. 2, fig. 3.

2014 Buliminella elegatissima (d’ Orbigny) ; Gen-

Bank ID: 379345,

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/

wwwtax.cgi?id=379345andlvl=0 Morphological description. The test is coiled in a high trochospire of many chambers; only two to three whorls oblongs are developed, well separated by depressed sutures; chambers are numerous, very narrow and very oblique; the radial calcite wall is perforate except around the aperture. Occurrence. Very rare species, occurring mainly in lower reaches of the estuary.

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FIGURE 4. Scanning electron micrographs of the foraminifera specimens. Scale bar equals 100 µm. 1-4- different sized specimens of Bolivina ordinaria Phleger and Parker, 1952, new name; 5- Buliminella elegantissima (d’Orbigny, 1839b); 6-7- Cornuspira involvens (Reuss 1850); 8-10- Miliolid sp1; 8- apertural view; 9- front view; 10- back view; 11- 13- Miliolid sp2; 11- apertural view; 12- front view; 13- back view; 14-16- Miliolid sp3; 14- front view; 15- apertural view; 16- back view; 17-18- Miliolid sp4; 17- apertural view; 18- front view; 19-21- Miliolid sp5; 19- apertural view; 20- front view; 21- back view; 22-23- Miliolid sp6; 22- front and apertural view; 23- back view; 24-26- Miliolid sp7; 24- front view; 25- apertural view; 26- front and apertural view; 27-29- Miliolid sp8; 27- front view; 28- apertural view; 29- front view of a smaller specimen.