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Description

provided by NMNH Antarctic Invertebrates

"Genus Gardineria Vaughan, 1907

Diagnosis. Solitary, turbinate to cylindrical, fixed. Wall epithecal but thickened internally by stereome. Septa not always arranged hexamerally. Paliform lobes opposite larger septa. Columella well developed, papillose.

Type-species: Gardineria hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907, by original designation."

(Cairns 1982 50)