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Galatheammina, TENDAL, 1972

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 : 730

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scientific name

 Galatheammina
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GENUS GALATHEAMMINA TENDAL, 1972 View in CoL

Diagnosis: Body lumpy, branched or flattened, sometimes with basal root-like structures. More or less firmly cemented xenophyae form outer test layer. Interior consists of loose accumulation of xenophyae with granellare and stercomare (modified after Tendal, 1972 and Gooday, 1991).

GALATHEAMMINA INTERSTINCTA GOODAY &

Gooday AJ. 1991. Xenophyophores (Protista, Rhizopoda) in box-core samples from the abysal northeast Atlantic (BIOTRANS area): their morphology, taxonomy and ecology. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 21: 197-212.

Tendal OS. 1972. A monograph of the Xenophyophoria (Rhizopoda, Protozoa). Galathea Report 12: 7-99.

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Foraminifera

Class

Monothalamea

Family

Psamminidae

Specimens