Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.19.1.61
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.19.1.61
01 May 2000
 | 01 May 2000

On the type species of Aubignyna and a description of A. hamblensis, a new microforaminifer from temperate shallow waters

John W. Murray, John E. Whittaker, and Elisabeth Alve

Abstract. The genus Aubignyna Margerel, 1970 (type A. mariei) was originally described from the upper Pliocene of NW France. Examination and re-illustration of topotypes of A. mariei Margerel, 1970, the holotype of Buccella planidorso Atkinson, 1969 (from the Recent of Cardigan Bay, Wales) and syntypes of Rotalia perlucida Heron-Allen & Earland, 1913 (from the Clare Island Survey, western Ireland) shows them to be conspecific. Consequently, the type species of Aubignyna becomes R. perlucida, for which a lectotype is chosen. A new species of microforaminifera formally described here is assigned to Aubignyna and shown to occur in a wide range of intertidal–shallow subtidal, brackish–normal marine estuaries and lagoons in Europe and North America.

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