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The intertidal foraminifer Trochammina inflata with a distinct morphotype in the White Sea, Russian Arctic: a local variety or new species? / Golikova, Elena; Korsun, Sergei.
Young Systematists’ Forum. 2016. p. 10.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference abstracts › Research
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T1 - The intertidal foraminifer Trochammina inflata with a distinct morphotype in the White Sea, Russian Arctic: a local variety or new species?
AU - Golikova, Elena
AU - Korsun, Sergei
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The cosmopolitan intertidal foraminifer Trochammina inflata (Montagu) is extensively used in both paleoenvironmentalreconstructions and ecological surveys of salt-marsh foraminifera, and therefore it needs correct identification. Images publishedover years depict differences in test shape, umbilicus features, incurvation of sutures, and number of chambers in the last whorl.For instance, Montagu (1808) described a 5-chambered specimen; revised description of Williamson (1858) as well as theneotype description (Brönnimann & Whittaker, 1984) reported 6 chambers. Recent White Sea specimens — 7-chambered,otherwise similar — inspired Mayer (1962) to propose a new subspecies ―Trochammina inflata (Montagu) subsp. n.?‖, but thiswork was not finalised. Recently collected White Sea specimens of T. inflata perfectly fit to Mayer‘s description. It raises thequestion whether it is possible to distinguish a new (sub)species based on the number of chambers or we are dealing with alocal morph of T. inflata.
AB - The cosmopolitan intertidal foraminifer Trochammina inflata (Montagu) is extensively used in both paleoenvironmentalreconstructions and ecological surveys of salt-marsh foraminifera, and therefore it needs correct identification. Images publishedover years depict differences in test shape, umbilicus features, incurvation of sutures, and number of chambers in the last whorl.For instance, Montagu (1808) described a 5-chambered specimen; revised description of Williamson (1858) as well as theneotype description (Brönnimann & Whittaker, 1984) reported 6 chambers. Recent White Sea specimens — 7-chambered,otherwise similar — inspired Mayer (1962) to propose a new subspecies ―Trochammina inflata (Montagu) subsp. n.?‖, but thiswork was not finalised. Recently collected White Sea specimens of T. inflata perfectly fit to Mayer‘s description. It raises thequestion whether it is possible to distinguish a new (sub)species based on the number of chambers or we are dealing with alocal morph of T. inflata.
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BT - Young Systematists’ Forum
Y2 - 25 November 2016 through 25 November 2016
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