Monalysidium confusa (McCulloch, 1977)

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 : 75

Monalysidium confusa (McCulloch, 1977)

Figure 22.8

1977 Spirolina confusa McCulloch , p. 231, pl. 100, fig. 9.

2012 Monalysidium confusa (McCulloch) ; Debenay, p. 111.

Description. Test robust, compressed, wall calcareous, surface ornamented with faint ribs, pitted in regular rows; chambers involute and planispirally arranged initially, later uncoiled, final chambers more inflated, periphery rounded, sutures radial, slightly arcuate initially, nearly horizontal later; aperture centred, areal, bordered by a lip, with teeth.

Figures

FIGURE 22. 1-2, Spiroloculina parvula Chapman, 1902 in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (1); and in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (2). 3-4, Spiroloculina subimpressa Parr, 1950 in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm) (3) and in ventral view (scale equals 300 μm) (4). 5, Miliolid sp. in dorsal view (scale equals 200 μm). 6, Peneroplis pertusus (Forskål, 1775) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm). 7, Peneroplis planatus (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm). 8, Monalysidium confusa (McCulloch, 1977) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm). 9-10, Edentostomina cultrata (Brady, 1881) in dorsal view (scale equals 1 mm) (9) and in ventral view (scale equals 500 μm) (10). 11-12, Edentostomina rupertiana (Brady, 1881) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm) (11) and in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm) (12). 13-14, Planispirinella exigua (Brady, 1879b) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm) (13) and in ventral view (scale equals 200 μm) (14). 15, Alveolinella quoii (d’Orbigny, 1826) in dorsal view (scale equals 500 μm). 16, Borelis melo (Fichtel and Moll, 1798) in dorsal view (scale equals 300 μm).