Spirillina obconica Brady, 1879       

Class: Spirillinata  Subclass: Spirillinana  Order: Spirillinida  Family: Spirillinidae
Taxon Profile

found at Challenger Station 149   Kerguelen and off   French territories   26-274m depth

Geological Time: Quaternary  Holocene  recent


The scan of this drawing from Bradys HMS Challenger Report is made by Dr. David Bossard and used by his permission.
© Dr. David C. Bossard, 19thcenturyscience.org.

HMS Challenger Collection

View of a specimen of Spirillina obconica Brady, 1879


The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 85, Fig. 7