Diagnosis
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Test small, 0.1 mm to 0.2 mm across, early stage spherical, ovoid, or flask-like, 0.08 mm to 0l mm in diameter, later with an embracing crescentic second chamber that extends from one-half to three-fourths the circumference of the proloculus, the two-chambered stage being persistant; rarely & few additional crescentic chambers may be added, but the multilocular stage may be transient as these later chambers may detach to form new individuals in an asexual budding process; wall a thin, flexible, transparent, colorless membrane, without agglutinated particles; flask-like stage with single aperture produced on collar, entosolenian tube surrounding pseudopodial trunk, crescentic chambers have a simple round opening with neither collar nor entosolenian tube. Marine. Holocene; Mediterranean: S. France. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.
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