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An individual in natural surroundings. The test's chambers are particularly distinct in this photograph.

  

The genus name Sorites means "a heap" in Greek, and is also the name of a philosophical problem (the "sorites paradox"). This paradox deals with the process of adding individual objects to a group: at what point do, say, individual sand grains added to a pile become "a heap of sand"?

  

In this case, even though the foram adds its chambers one by one, it only takes one chamber to make a Sorites. Problem solved.

  This individual was collected from Cook's Bay, Moorea, French Polynesia. Light micrograph by Scott Fay, 2005.