Saracenaria volpicelli (Costa, 1855)       

Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Nodosariana  Order: Vaginulinida  Family: Vaginulinidae
Taxon Profile

found at Challenger Station 335   Tristan da Cunha and off   British territories   from 2606m depth, 32.24 S, 13.5. W

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent


The scan of this drawing from Bradys HMS Challenger Report is made by Dr. David Bossard and used by his permission.
© Dr. David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org.

HMS Challenger Collection

View of a specimen of Saracenaria volpicelli (Costa, 1855)


The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 67, Fig. 9