Reophax sp. ---       

Class: Nodosariata  Subclass: Hormosinana  Order: Hormosinida  Family: Reophacidae
Taxon Profile

found at Osaka Bay 439f   Japan   depth 42,3m

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary

the image is made by Dr. Georg Rosenfeldt and Michael Hesemann with support of the
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein in Hamburg


the raw material is provided by Akira Tsujimoto

View of specimens of Reophax  ---
Specimen picked by Karl-Otto Bock

The identification is based upon:
Matoba, Yasumochi and Fukasawa, Kazue, 1992: Depth distribution of Recent benthic foraminifera on the continental shelf and uppermost slope off southern Akita Prefecture, Northeast Japan (The Eastern Japan Sea) . Centenary of Japanese Micropaleontology 20 pp. Plate 6, Fig. 0