Description of Tortoplectellidae
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Rotaliine foraminifera, test biserial, flattened, aperture an areal slit bordered by a lip, internal toothplate absent, tropical shallow waters.
Diagnosis
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Test free, biserial throughout, although plane of biseriality may be slightly twisted with continued growth; wall calcareous, optically hyaline oblique, perforate granular in structure; aperture an areal loop-shaped slit that runs obliquely up the apertural face. Holocene; Pacific Ocean; Indian Ocean. (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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