Alveolinella Douvillé 1907

Mamo, Briony L., 2016, Benthic Foraminifera from the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Zootaxa 4215 (1), pp. 1-123 : 61

Alveolinella Douvillé 1907

Alveolinella quoii ( d'Orbigny 1826) ( Fig. 14 : 5–10)

1826 Alveolina quoyi d’Orbigny , p. 307, pl. 17, figs 11–13.

1884 Alveolina boscii (Defrance) ; Brady, pl. 17, figs 7–12.

1958 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Collins, p. 377.

1960 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Barker, p. 34, pl. 17, figs 7–12. 1987 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Baccaert, p. 154, pl. 66, figs 6, 7. 1987 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Loeblich & Tappan, p. 361, pl. 373, figs 1–3. 1994 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Loeblich & Tappan, p. 60, pl. 107, figs 1–4. 1995 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Lobegeier, p. 74, pl. 3, figs 12, 13. 2001 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Lobegeier, p. 287, pl. 4, figs 8, 9. 2009 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Parker, p. 83, fig. 59a–g.

2010 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Narayan & Pandolfi, p. 2075, pl. 1, fig. 32. 2012 Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny) ; Debenay, p. 102, pl. 4.

Description. See d’Orbigny (1826, p. 307, pl. 17, figs 11–13) and Parker (2009, Parker, p. 83, fig. 59a–g).

Remarks. This distinctive species is characterised by its short, narrow chambers that span the length of the test and thin towards the middle. Its apertural face bears numerous rows of openings which correspond with auxiliary chamberlets ( Fig. 14 :5–10).

Alveolinella quoyi ( d’Orbigny 1826) is a reef taxon that is common to the Indo-Pacific region and was originally collected from Papua New Guinea ( d'Orbigny 1826). This taxon was collected by Brady (1884) from the Admiralty Islands on the Challenger Expedition and it has also been recorded on several occasions from the Great Barrier Reef ( Collins 1958; Baccaert 1987; Lobegeier 1995; 2001; Narayan & Pandolfi 2010). On the Great Barrier Reef, Lobegeier (1995) collected specimens from the moats of Low Isles, whereas Collins (1958) located specimens down to depths of 51 m and juveniles in even deeper waters down to 380 m, but never in shallow, sandy facies. Brady (1884) only noted A. quoyi at depths of 30– 46 m . Parker (2009) reported specimens from Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia and Loeblich & Tappan (1987; 1994) from the Sulu Archipelago , Philippines and Sahul Shelf. Debenay (2012) reported specimens as widely distributed throughout the southwestern lagoon of New Caledonia from depths between 0– 50 m .

Distribution within study area. Alveolinella quoyi appears to prefer deeper water environments and was not found in any shallow water environments such as reef flats. The presence of this taxon in the channel sample at a depth of 35 m makes up 4% of the total sample assemblage.

Figures

FIGURE 14. (Unless otherwise specified all scale bars = 100 µm). 1 – 4. Pseudohauerina involuta (Cushman, 1946). 1 – 2. QM # G 465873 from CHANNEL, lateral (1) and angled lateral (2) views. 3 – 4. QM # G 465874 from CHANNEL, lateral (3) and oral (4) views. Scale bars = 200 µm. 5 – 10. Alveolinella quoyi (d’Orbigny, 1826). 5 – 7. QM # G 465965 from CHANNEL, oral (5), lateral (6) and peripheral (7) views. 8 – 9. QM # G 465964 from CHANNEL, oral (8) and lateral (9) views. Scale bar for 8 = 200 µm. 10. QM # G 465865 from CHANNEL, lateral view, scale bar = 500 µm. 11 – 16. Monalysidium acicularis (Batsch, 1791). 11 – 13. QM # G 465778 from ST / HW 2, lateral view (11, 12) and oral (13) views. Scale bar = 200 µm. 14 – 16. QM # G 465888 from ST / HW 4 lateral (14, 15) and oral (16) views. 17 – 20. Peneroplis pertusus (Forskål, 1775). 17 – 18. QM # G 465882 from ST / HW 2, lateral (17) and oral (18) views. 19 – 20. QM # G 465804 from T 2 – 3, lateral (19) and oral (20) views.