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Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina

Globigerinidae

Taxonomy
Globigerina seminulina was named by Schwager (1866). It is the type species of Sphaeroidinellopsis.

It was recombined as Sphaeroidinella seminulina by Kennett (1973); it was recombined as Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina by Kennett and Srinivasan (1983), Haig (2012) and Lam and Leckie (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Globigerina seminulina Schwager
1973Sphaeroidinella seminulina Kennett
1983Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina Kennett and Srinivasan
2012Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina Haig
2020Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina Lam and Leckie

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomChromistaCavalier-Smith 1981
subkingdomRhizaria()
phylumForaminifera(Eichwald 1830)
superfamilyGlobigerinoideaCarpenter et al. 1862
RankNameAuthor
familyGlobigerinidaeCarpenter et al. 1862
genusSphaeroidinellopsisBanner and Blow 1959
speciesseminulina(Schwager 1866)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
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