Amphistegina  lessonii  (d'Orbigny, 1843)       

Class: Globothalamea   Subclass: Rotaliana   Order: Rotaliida   Family: Amphisteginidae
Taxon Profile

found on a beach at Cairns    Australia   exact locality unknown

Geological Time: recent  Holocene  Quaternary

Raw material provided by Family Meyer
in the collection of Karl-Otto Bock

View of specimens of Amphistegina lessonii (d'Orbigny, 1843)

the specimens are placed by Karl-Otto Bock and photographed by Georg Wawczyniak

The identification is based upon:
, : Deshayes, G. P. (1830-1832). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des Vers et Mollusques. Vol. 2: viii+1-594 [part 1: i-vi, 1-256, Livraison 101, 1 Feb 1830; part 2: 1-144, Livraison 101, 1 Feb. 1830; 145-594, Livraison 102, 29 Sept. 1832]. Vol. 3: 595-1152 [Livraison 102, 29 Sept. 1832]. Plate , Fig.