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South West Indian Ocean 5.0 N, 65.0 E recent to Holocene the images are provided by Selvin Shyam Paul the work was done and images made by Prof. Addula Nallappa Reddy the specimens were found in five grab samples collected in June 2009 by ORV Sagar Kanya from 3150-4125m depth. Post-mortem transport occured, as some of the shown species do not live in the Deep sea. Find more details in Nadimikeri Jayaraju et al., 2010: Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminiferal Distribution in South West Indian Ocean: Implications to Paleoecology in International Journal of Geosciences, 2010, 1, 79-86 |
 redrawn from Jayaraju et al., 2010 |
Ammonia beccarii (Linné, 1758 )  | Astrononion umbilicatum Uchio, 1952  | Astrononion umbilicatum Uchio, 1952  | Borelis schlumbergeri (Reichel, 1937)  |
Cibicides wuellerstorfi (Schwager, 1866)  | Cibicides wuellerstorfi (Schwager, 1866)  | Elphidium crispum (Linneaeus, 1758)  | Epistominella exigua (Brady, 1884)  |
Eponides repandus (Fichtel & Moll, 1798)  | Gyroidina --  | Gyroidina --  | Heterostegina depressa d'Orbigny, 1826  |
Lagena demorpha Rymer Jones, 1872  | Laticarinina pauperata (Parker & Jones, 1865)  | Marginopora vertebralis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830  | Oolina apiculata Reuss, 1851  |
Quinqueloculina parkeri (Brady, 1881)  | Sorites marginalis (Lamarck, 1816)  | Spirillina decorata Brady, 1884  | Textularia --  |