Diagnosis
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test auriculate in outline, compressed but with rounded periphery, fusiform proloculus followed by later chambers in partial coil, chambers progressively higher and extending farther from the base on the dorsal margin but reaching back to the proloculus on the ventral margin, sutures straight, radial, flush; wall calcareous, thin, hyaline, and translucent, finely perforate; surface smooth; aperture at the dorsal angle, ovate, slightly elongate in the plane of coiling, with an entosolenian tube extending back across the chamber lumen nearly to the dorsal wall, somewhat flared terminally. Holocene; Pacific: off the Philippine Islands. (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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