Saracenaria italica Defrance, 1824       

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

found at Challenger Station 174C   Fiji and off   Fiji   from 1116m depth

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 italica Defrance, 1824


The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 68, Fig. 18