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. 2009 Nov 11;3:155–177. doi: 10.4137/bbi.s3334

Table 1.

Species of planktonic foraminifers. A list of all planktonic foraminifera species included in this study; and their representation by SSU rDNA data in public databases and newly assembled data.

Species SSU data available§ New data added
Microperforate clade ( = Candeinidae Saito and Thompson 1982)
  Candeina nitida d’Orbigny 1839 No No
  Globigerinita glutinata (Egger 1893) Yes Yes
    G. minuta (Natland 1938) No No
    G. uvula (Ehrenberg 1861) Singleton Yes
  Tenuitella fleisheri Li 1987 No No
    T. iota (Parker 1954) No No
    T. parkerae (Brönnimann and Resig 1971) No No
Nonspinose clade ( = Globorotaliidae Cushman 1927)
  Berggrenia pumilio (Parker 1962) No No
  Globoquadrina conglomerata (Schwager 1866) No No
  Globorotalia anfracta (Parker 1967) No No
    G. cavernula Bé 1967 No No
    G. crassaformis (Galloway and Wissler 1927) Singleton* No
    G. hirsuta (d’Orbigny 1839) Singleton Yes
    G. inflata (d’Orbigny 1839) Singleton Yes
    G. menardii (d’Orbingy 1826) Yes No
    G. scitula (Brady 1882) No No
    G. truncatulinoides (d’Orbigny 1839) Yes Yes
    G. theyeri Fleisher 1974 No No
    G. tumida (Brady 1877) No No
    G. ungulata Bermudez 1960 No No
  Globorotaloides hexagonus (Natland 1938) No No
  Neogloboquadrina dutertrei (d’Orbingy 1826) Yes No
    N. incompta (Cifelli 1961) Yes Yes
    N. pachyderma (Ehrenberg 1861) Yes No
  Pulleniatina obliquiloculata (Parker and Jones 1862) Yes No
Spinose bilamellar clade ( = Globigerinidae Carpenter, Parker and Jones 1876)
  Beela digitata (Brady 1879) No No
  Globigerina bulloides d’Orbigny 1826 Yes No
    G. falconensis Blow 1959 Yes No
  Globigerinella adamsi (Banner and Blow 1959) No No
    G. calida (Parker 1962) Singleton* No
    G. siphonifera (d’Orbigny 1839) Yes Yes
  Globigerinoides conglobatus (Brady 1879) Yes No
    G. ruber (d’Orbigny 1839) Yes, biphyletic No
    G. sacculifer (Brady 1877) Yes No
  Globoturborotalita rubescens Hofker 1956 No No
    G. tenella (Parker 1958) No No
  Orbulina universa d’Orbigny 1839 Yes No
  Sphaerodinella dehiscens (Parker and Jones 1865) No No
  Turborotalita clarckei (Roegl and Bolli 1973) No No
    T. humilis (Brady 1884) No No
    T. quinqueloba (Natland 1938) Yes No
Spinose monolammelar clade (= Hastigerinidae Saito and Thompson 1976)
  Hastigerina pelagica (d’Orbigny 1893) Singleton Yes
  Hastigerinella digitata (Rhumbler 1911) No No
  Orcadia (Hastigerinella) riedeli (Roegl and Bolli 1973) No No
*

These singletons are possibly not representative for the assigned species.

The new data revealed new sequence (sub)types.

The new data includes sequences from a globorotaliid specimen, which may be G. scitula or not.

§

Available in public databases at the time of data mining (October 2008). A SSU rDNA sequence of C. nitida is available since the end of 2008.69