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Hoeglundina elegans sensu Jones, R.W. 1994. The Challenger Foraminifera. Image source: Brady, H.B. (1884) Pl. 105
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Image source: Todd, R. 1965. The Foraminifera of the Tropical Pacific Collections of the ”Albatross”, 1899-1900. Part 4. Rotaliform families and planktonic families [End of Volume]. Bull. U.S. Nation. Mus 161: v+139 pp.+28 pls.
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Northland, Little Barrier Island, 85 m depth, Plate 8 in Hayward, B.W., Grenfell, H.R., Reid, C.M., Hayward, K.A. 1999. Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic Foraminifera: Taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessment. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 21, 258 p.
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Northland, Little Barrier Island, 85 m depth, Plate 8 in Hayward, B.W., Grenfell, H.R., Reid, C.M., Hayward, K.A. 1999. Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic Foraminifera: Taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessment. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 21, 258 p.
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Great Barrier Island, 68 m.
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Description.Test trochospiral, unequally biconvex, subcircular in outline recognized easily by its clear wall showing a cloudy mottling under a light microscope; spiral side evolute, slightly convex; umbilical side involute, more strongly convex; peripheral margin strongly keeled; on the spiral side, sutures flush, indistinct, obscured by irregularly distributed, low tubercles; on the umbilical side, 7-9 somewhat inflated chambers with depressed and nearly radiate sutures; wall finely perforated on both sides; apertural face truncate, with an acute, nearly keeled border; aperture one or two small openings at the base of the apertural chamber and a long slit-like peripheral opening parallel to the margin and provided with a prominent inner lip, still visible on the last 3 or 4 chambers.