Irenita Jones 1984

Irenita, en ocasiones erróneamente denominado Iremita e Iremia, es un género de foraminífero bentónico de la Subfamilia Parafissurininae, de la Familia Ellipsolagenidae, de la Superfamilia Polymorphinoidea, del Suborden Lagenina y del Orden Lagenida.​​ Su especie-tipo es Lagena cornigera. Su rango cronoestratigráfico abarca desde el Pleistoceno hasta la Actualidad.

Test unilocular, ovate, compressed, the dorsal side terminally produced and spreading in a hoodlike structure over the aperture; wall calcareous, hyaline, periphery with a single or double, smooth or chainlike keel or may have a double keel in part of the test and a single one elsewhere; aperture broad and crescentic, subterminal between the asymmetrically developed lips, the dorsal border produced and the ventral one shorter, entosolenian tube fastened to the midline of the dorsal wall in the upper part, then turns to one edge and continues into the lower half of the test. Pleistocene? to Holocene; Mediterranean; Southwest Pacific. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)