Calcarina spengleri (Gmelin, 1791)

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 : 22

Calcarina spengleri (Gmelin, 1791)

Figure 6.1-2

1788 Nautilus spengleri Gmelin , p. 3371.

2005 Calcarina spengleri (Gmelin) ; Renema and Hohenegger, p. 16, pl. 1, figs. 1-10; text-fig. 1.

2014 Calcarina spengleri (Gmelin) ; Panchang and Nigam, pl. 37, figs. 9a-b, 10a-b.

Description. Test large, biconvex, side view lenticular, wall calcareous, coarsely perforate, surface ornamented with few, granulated calcitic knobs in the centre; chambers many, final chambers long, narrow and inflated, chamber arrangement trochospiral; periphery with long, tapering, blunt spines; sutures distinct only in the final chambers, slightly depressed on the spiral side, radial and depressed on the umbilical side; aperture not seen.

Figures

FIGURE 6. 1-2, Calcarina spengleri (Gmelin, 1791) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm) (1) and in ventral view (scale equals 500 μm) (2). 3, Cribroelphidium excavatum (Terquem, 1875) in ventral view (scale equals 100 μm). 4, Cribroelphidium poeyanum (d’Orbigny, 1826) in dorsal view (scale equals 100 μm). 5, Elphidiella hannai (Cushman and Grant, 1927) in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 6, Elphidium advenum subsp. limbatum (Chapman, 1907) in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm). 7, Elphidium advenum var. depressulum Cushman, 1933 in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 8, Elphidium asiaticum Polski, 1959 in ventral view (scale equals 100 μm). 9, Elphidium botaniense Albani, 1981 in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 10, Elphidium carteri Hayward in Hayward, Hollis and Grenfell, 1997 in dorsal view (scale equals 100 μm). 11, Elphidium charlottense (Vella, 1957) in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm). 12, Elphidium charlottense (Vella, 1957) in apertural view (scale equals 200 μm). 13, Elphidium craticulatum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 400 μm). 14, Elphidium crispum (Linnaeus, 1758) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm). 15-16, Elphidium hispidulum Cushman, 1936 in apertural view (scale equals 300 μm) (15) and in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (16). 17, Elphidium macellum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm). 18, Elphidium somaense Takayanagi, 1955 in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm). 19, Elphidium striatopunctatum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 400 μm). 20, Nonion fabum (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm).