Diagnosis
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test large, up to 2.4 mm in length, globular, chamber arrangement as in Pyrgo, chambers hemispherical, strongly overlapping the previous one on all margins, successive apertures at opposite ends of the test; wall calcareous, porcelaneous; aperture consisting of multiple irregular openings scattered over much of the terminal part of the chamber. Holocene; Caribbean: off Cuba at 2,150 m. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.
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