Elphidium craticulatum Cushman (not Fichtel and Moll) = E. batavum Hofker, 1968 (Opinion of Hofker (1968))

Description:

Image source: Cushman, J.A. 1933. The Foraminifera of the Tropical Pacific Collections of the ”Albatross”. Part 2. Lagenidae to Alveolinellidae. Bull. U.S. Nation. Mus 161: vi+79 pp.+19 pls. Note: Whittaker and Hodgkinson (Togopi, 1979, p. 83): "In 1968 Hofker [...] cited Cushman's E. craticulatum from Tonga (1933: 48; pl. 11, fig. 5), as being conspecific [with E. batavum]. In 1971, however, he included this reference, without comment, in his synonymy of Cellanthus craticulatus [= Elphidium cratulatum]." Whittaker and Hodgkinson (1979), who noticed Hofker's change of opinion, do not list Cushman (1933) reference in their synonymy of C. craticulatus.