Hoeglundina elegans  (d'Orbigny, 1826)
 
Class: Globothalamea  Subclass:   Order: Robertinida  Family: Epistominidae
 
found on the  Mauritanian Slope

Station 14903-1 (414m depth) at N 17.548 W 16.662
   off West Africa   Mauritania
 
Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent
 
the raw material is provided by Leon Hoffman,
 

corroded specimen, with periphal slit, typical for H. Elegans
 
 
The identification is based upon:
 Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera  Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 105, Fig. 3
 
 
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dataset number: FEU-1012173
 
Citation: Hesemann, M., The Foraminifera.eu Database (2025). Accessed at http://www.foraminifera.eu on 2025-07-11. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22727.11680/1