Allogromia: Brief Summary
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Allogromia is a genus of Foraminifera.
Species:
Allogromia fluviatilis (Dujardin, 1841)
Allogromia lagenoides (Gruber, 1884)
Allogromia laticollaris Arnold, 1948
Allogromia ledanteci De Saedeleer, 1934
Allogromia marina Nyholm & Gertz, 1973
Allogromia mollis (Gruber, 1884)
Allogromia ovoidea Rhumbler, 1904
Allogromia terricola (Leidy, 1874)
Allogromia verbrugghei De Saedeleer, 1934
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Diagnosis
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Test free, ovate to spherical, 0.08 mm to 0.5 mm in length; wall thin, proteinaceous, with fibrillar ultrastructure, produced by endoplasm and not by the ectoplasmic pseudopodia, may have some agglutinated matter; aperture terminal, rounded, with entosolenian tube projecting into the interior and serving as a sheath for the pseudopodial trunk; granular pseudopodia elongate and anastomosing, with prominent streaming; reproduction by asexual schizogony, and sexual production of amoeboid gametes, haploid gamont, and diploid schizont generations morphologically similar. Marine and fresh water. Holocene; Europe; North America. (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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