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Image source: Cushman, J.A. 1918. The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part I. Astrorhizidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104.
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Image source: Höglund, H. 1947. Foraminifera in the Gullmar fjord and the Skagerak. Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala 26: 1-328 + 32 pls. Uploaded with written permission from the copyright owners Annalena Höglund and Jan Höglund.
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Image source: Cushman, J.A. 1918. The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part I. Astrorhizidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104.
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Northland, Parengarenga Harbour, intertidal Pl 1 in Hayward, B.W., Grenfell, H.R., Reid, C.M., Hayward, K.A. 1999. Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic Foraminifera: Taxonomy, ecologic distributio, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessment. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 21, 258p.
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Northland, Parengarenga Harbour, intertidal Pl 1 in Hayward, B.W., Grenfell, H.R., Reid, C.M., Hayward, K.A. 1999. Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic Foraminifera: Taxonomy, ecologic distributio, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessment. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 21, 258p.
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The Latin word "glomus" means "a ball of yarn". Glomospira species make a test that has a single chamber in the center, surrounded by a very long tubular second chamber that winds around it. Sample collected in an inlet of the Oslofjord, Norway. Image courtesy of Elisabeth Alve, University of Oslo. Originally published in J. Foram. Res. 16: 261-284; used with permission.