Bizarria, 2018

Gooday, Andrew J., Holzmann, Maria, Goineau, Aurélie, Pearce, Richard B., Voltski, Ivan, Weber, Alexandra A. - T. & Pawlowski, Jan, 2018, Five new species and two new genera of xenophyophores (Foraminifera: Rhizaria) from part of the abyssal equatorial Pacific licensed for polymetallic nodule exploration, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183, pp. 723-748 : 741-742

BIZARRIA GOODAY & HOLZMANN GEN. NOV.

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Diagnosis: Test attached, relatively small and dome-like in overall form, comprising complex mass of inter-connecting branches rising up from substrate. Test wall transparent, composed largely of organic material. Interior filled with masses of dark stercomata at base and with pale tuft-like extremities filled with fine sediment particles. Granellare forms narrow branching strands in direct contact with the stercomata masses and visible in places through test wall. Xenophyae sparse, mainly radiolarian shells.

Etymology: The name refers to the unusual appearance of this genus.

R e m a r k s: A s d i s c u s s e d b e l o w, B i z a r r i a i s distinguished from Cerelasma Haeckel, 1889 by a number of morphological features. Unfortunately, the absence of molecular data for Cerelasma means that the phylogenetic relationship between these two unusual xenophyophore genera is unknown.

BIZARRIA BRYIFORMIS GOODAY &