Fissurina marginata ( Montagu, 1803 )

Toefy, R., Gibbons, M. J. & McMillan, I. K., 2005, The foraminifera associated with the alga Gelidium pristoides, South Africa, African Invertebrates 46, pp. 1-26 : 10

Fissurina marginata ( Montagu, 1803)

Figs 3L , 4A

Vermiculum marginatum: Montagu 1803: 524 .

Fissurina marginata: Boltovskoy 1959: 69 , pl. 9, fig. 18. Hayward et al. 1999: 119, pl. 7, figs 22, 23;

McMillan 1990 b: 144, figs F, G; Dale & McMillan 1999, pl. 29, figs 2, 3.

Material examined: A27403, A27404.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan, inner shelf, littoral. Around South Africa from Sea Point to Port Elizabeth.

Remarks: Differs from that described by Hayward et al. (1999) in that the keel is not as distinctive but is quite narrow.

Figures

Fig. 3 A–L: (A, B) Lagena semilineata Wright, 1886; (C) Lagena sulcata Walker & Jacob, 1798; (D) Lagena tenuis (Bornemann, 1855); (E, F) Lagenosolenia sp. “A”; (G–I) Oolina sp. “A”; (J) Oolina melo d’Orbigny, 1839; (K) Oolina squamosulcata (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1922); (L) Fissurina marginata (Montagu, 1803).

Fig. 4 A–L: (A) Fissurina marginata (Montagu, 1803); (B, C) Fissurina sp. “A”; (D) Guttulina irregularis (d’Orbigny, 1846); (E) Glandulina sp. “A”; (F) Bolivina “fossa” McMillan, 1987 m.s.; (G, H) Bolivina pseudoplicata Heron-Allen & Earland, 1930; (I) Bolivina sp. “A”; (J) Brizalina pseudopunctata (Höglund, 1947); (K) Brizalina “rocklandsensis” McMillan, 1987 m.s.; (L) Bulimina elongata d’Orbigny, 1846.