Class: Rotaliata  Subclass: Rotaliana  Order: Elphidiida  Family: Elphidiidae

 

found in the  Penang Island Mangroves

   Andaman Sea and Malacca St.   Malaysia

 

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent

 

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The identification is based upon:

 , : Hayward, B.W., Hollis, C.J., Grenfell, H.R. 1997. Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the South-West Pacific and fossil Elphidiidae of New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Monograph 16, 166 p.    Plate , Fig. 

 

 

 

dataset number: FEU-1024105