Cancris sagra (d’Orbigny, 1839a)

Figure 8.11-12

1839a Rotalina sagra d’Orbigny, p. 77, pl. 5, figs. 13-15.

2012 Cancris sagrum (d’Orbigny); Debenay, p. 189.

2014 Cancris sagra (d’Orbigny); Panchang and Nigam, pl. 29, fig. 8a-c.

Description. Test broad, outline subelliptical, spiral side flat to gently convex, umbilical side convex, wall transparent to opaque, perforate, a selected portion above the aperture imperforate, surface smooth; chambers roughly triangular, inflated in the umbilical side, arched in the spiral side, final chambers rapidly increasing in size as added, chamber arrangement trochospiral; peripheral margin carinate, sutures curved and slightly depressed on the dorsal side, depressed and radial on the ventral side; aperture interiomarginal, umbilical, a narrow slit, with a flap-like lamina.