Bulimina aculeata d'Orbigny, 1826

Symphonia, Tabita K. & Senthil, Nathan D., 2019, Taxonomic notes on Recent Foraminifera from the Continental Shelf-Slope Region of Southwestern Bay of Bengal, East Coast of India, Palaeontologia Electronica (55 A) 22 (3), pp. 1-89 : 37

Bulimina aculeata d'Orbigny, 1826

Figure 10.1

1826 Bulimina aculeata d’Orbigny , p. 269, fig. 7.

2001 Bulimina aculeata d’Orbigny ; Szarek, p. 128, pl. 17, fig. 19.

2002 Bulimina aculeata d’Orbigny ; Kaminski, Aksu, Box, Hiscott, Filipescu, and Al-Salameen, p. 174, pl. 3, fig. 3.

2010 Bulimina aculeata d’Orbigny ; Margreth, p. 116, pl. 27, fig. 8.

2012 Bulimina aculeata d’Orbigny ; Milker and Schmiedl, p. 87, fig. 20.19.

Description. Test small, lateral view ovate, taper-

ing distal end, wall calcareous, finely perforate,

surface smooth, chamber ends with pseudospines;

chambers inflated, rapidly increasing in size, triseri-

ally arranged; periphery rounded, sutures distinct,

oblique and depressed; aperture terminal, subcir-

cular, loop-like opening, bordered by a thick rim.