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Systematical Taxonomy of Foraminifera (Mikhalevich 2004)     read the background information
Classes:   ASTRORHIZATA      SPIRILLINATA      MILIOLATA     NODOSARIATA     ROTALIATA, Subclasses: ROTALIANA  /  TEXTULARIANA  /  GLOBIGERINANA

Class: ASTRORHIZATA Mikhalevich, 1980:
Subclasses: Astrorhizana Saidova, 1981 and Lagynana Mikhalevich, 1980

Shells unilocular, sometimes pseudocolonial or pseudochambered, of subsphaerical, elongated, tubular, stellate, branching or other irregular form; wall monofontinal, sometimes the pseudopores are visible, tectinous in Lagynana and Ammoscalariana, agglutinated or microgranular in Astrorhizana, may be simple or partly subdivided by the partitions in the Lagynana and Astrorhizana, in the latter may be thickened from the inside (spongy, labyrinthic); aperture may be entirely absent, may be primarily multiple (openings often irregular in form and position or situated at the end of the tubes), or single in more advanced forms (usually of definite form and position, may be slightly elevated on the neck, may have a small lip); agamonts uninuclear, nuclear dualism unknown, gametes biflagellate or amoeboid (in some Lagynana); free-living or (very often) attached, [among Lagynana freshwater forms are also met, two genera (Rhynchosaccus and Thalamophaga) are parasitic]. Cm - Holocene. Subclasses Lagynana Mikhalevich, 1980, Ammoscalariana Mikhalevich, 1980 (insufficiently studied), Astrorhizana Saidova, 1981.

Source: Mikhalevich V.I. 2000. [Tip Foraminifera d'Orbigny, 1826 - Foraminifery] The phylum Foraminifera d'Orbigny, 1826 - Foraminifers // Protista. P. 1. Manual on Zoology. Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. Sankt-Petersburg: Nauka, 533-623. (In Russian, English summary p. 611 - 616) and
Mikhalevich V.I. On the heterogeneity of the former Textulariina (Foraminifera) // Proc. 6 Intern. Workshop Agglutinated Foraminifera. Grzybowski Foundation Spec. Publ. 2004. V. 8. P. 317 to 349.
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Astrorhiza
     Species
arenaria
Carpenter in Norman, 1877
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Astrorhiza
     Species
granulosa
(Brady, 1879)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Astrorhiza
     Species
limicola
Sandahl, 1858
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Astrorhiza
     Species
limicola
Sandahl, 1858
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Hippocrepina
     Species
indivisa
Parker, 1870
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Jaculella
     Species
acuta
Brady, 1879
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Jaculella
     Species
obtusa
Brady, 1882
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Pelosina
     Species
cylindrica
Brady, 1884
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Pelosina
     Species
rotundata
Brady, 1879
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Pelosina
     Species
variabilis
Brady, 1879
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Proteonina
     Species
testacea
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Pseudoastrorhiza
     Species
conica
Gutschick, Weiner&Young, 1961
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Astrorhizidae
     Genus
Pseudoastrorhiza
     Species
delicata
Gutschick&Treckmann, 1959
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Baculellidae
     Genus
Catena
     Species
piriformis
Schroeder, Medioli and Scott, 1989
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Baculellidae
     Genus
Edgertonia
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Bathysiphonidae
     Genus
Bathysiphon
     Species
crassatina
(Brady, 1884)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Bathysiphonidae
     Genus
Bathysiphon
     Species
filiformis
Sars, 1870
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Bathysiphonidae
     Genus
Bathysiphon
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Bathysiphonidae
     Genus
Bathysiphon
     Species
sp.
---
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Bathysiphonidae
     Genus
Bathysiphon
     Species
taurinensis
Sacco 1893
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Bathysiphonidae
     Genus
Psammosiphonella
     Species
discreta
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hemisphaeramminidae
     Genus
Hemisphaerammina
     Species
bradyi
Loeblich and Tappan, 1957
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hemisphaeramminidae
     Genus
Hemisphaerammina
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hemisphaeramminidae
     Genus
Iridia
     Species
diaphana
Heron-Allen and Earland, 1914
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hemisphaeramminidae
     Genus
Tholosina
     Species
bulla
(Brady, 1881)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hemisphaeramminidae
     Genus
Tholosina
     Species
vesicularis
(Brady, 1879)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinellidae
     Genus
Cribrothalammina
     Species
alba
Heron-Allen and Earland, 1932
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinellidae
     Genus
Hippocrepinella
     Species
hirudinea
Heron-Allen and Earland, 1932
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
casteri
Conkin, 1961
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
compacta
Gutschick&Treckmann, 1959
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
constricta
Gutschick&Treckmann, 1959
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
gracilenta
Gutschick&Treckmann, 1959
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
rockfordensis
Gutschick&Treckmann, 1959
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Hippocrepinidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
sappingtonensis
Gutschick, 1962
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Blastammina
     Species
eisenacki
Conkin, Conkin and Pike, 1965
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Psammosphaera
     Species
fusca
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Psammosphaera
     Species
parva
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Sorosphaera
     Species
confusa
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Sorosphaera
     Species
cooperensis
Conkin&Conkin&Canis, 1968
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Sorosphaera
     Species
papilla
Gutschick&Treckmann, 1959
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Storthosphaera
     Species
alibida
Schulze, 1875
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Thuramminoides
     Species
sphaeroidalis
Plummer, 1945
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Thuramminoides
     Species
sphaeroidalis
Plummer, 1945
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Psammosphaeridae
     Genus
Thuramminopsis
     Species
canaliculata
Haeusler, 1883
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Dendrophrya
     Species
erecta
Wright, 1861
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Dendrophrya
     Species
radiata
Wright, 1861
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Halyphysema
     Species
tumanowiczii
Bowerbank, 1862
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Marsipella
     Species
elongata
Norman, 1878
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Psammatodendron
     Species
arborescens
Norman in Brady, 1881
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhabdammina
     Species
abyssorum
M. Sars in Carpenter, 1869
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhabdammina
     Species
cornuta
(Brady, 1879)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhabdammina
     Species
discreta
Brady, 1881
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhabdammina
     Species
linearis
Brady, 1879
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhabdammina
     Species
neglecta
Gooday, 1986
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhabdammina
     Species
sp.
---
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhabdamminella
     Species
cylindrica
Brady, 1882
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhizammina
     Species
algaeformis
Brady, 1879
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Rhabdamminidae
     Genus
Rhizammina
     Species
indivisa
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Discobotellina
     Species
biperforata
Collins, 1958
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Masonella
     Species
planulata
Brady, 1889
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Saccammina
     Species
howei
Conkin&Conkin&Canis, 1968
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Saccammina
     Species
socialis
Brady, 1884
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Technitella
     Species
melo
Norman, 1878
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Technitella
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Syringamminidae
     Genus
Aschemonella
     Species
catenata
(Norman, 1876)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Syringamminidae
     Genus
Aschemonella
     Species
scabra
Brady, 1870
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Astrorhizida
     Family
Telamminidae
     Genus
Aggerostramen
     Species
rustica
(Heron-Allen and Earland, 1912)
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Dendrofryida
     Family
Dryorhizopsidae
     Genus
Sagenina
     Species
frondescens
(Brady, 1879)
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Dendrofryida
     Family
Schizamminidae
     Genus
Schizammina
     Species
labyrinthica
Heron Allen and Earland, 1929
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Botellinidae
     Genus
Protobotellina
     Species
cylindrica
Heron Allen and Earland, 1929
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Botellinídae
     Genus
Botellina
     Species
labyrinthica
Brady, 1881
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Hyperamminidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
cylindrica
Parr, 1950
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Hyperamminidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
elongata
Brady, 1878
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Hyperamminidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
friabilis
Brady, 1884
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Hyperamminidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
laevigata
Wright, 1891
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Hyperamminidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Hyperamminidae
     Genus
Hyperammina
     Species
sp.
---
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Hippocrepinida
     Family
Hyperamminidae
     Genus
Saccorhiza
     Species
ramosa
(Brady, 1879)
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Diffusilina
     Species
humilis
Heron-Allen and Earland, 1924
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Lagenammina
     Species
ampullacea
(Brady, 1881)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Lagenammina
     Species
arenulata
(Skinner, 1961)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Lagenammina
     Species
atlantica
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Lagenammina
     Species
cumberlandiae
(Conkin, 1961)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Lagenammina
     Species
difflugiformis
(Brady, 1879)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Lagenammina
     Species
sp.
---
not reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Lagenammina
     Species
spiculata
(Skinner, 1961)
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Pilulina
     Species
jeffreysii
Carpenter, 1875
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Placentammina
     Species
placenta
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Saccammina
     Species
sphaerica
Brady, 1871
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Technitella
     Species
legumen
Norman, 1878
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Thurammina
     Species
albicans
Brady, 1879
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Thurammina
     Species
compressa
Brady, 1879
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Thurammina
     Species
congesta
Gutschick, Weiner&Young, 1961
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Thurammina
     Species
papillata
Brady, 1879
type specimen
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Thurammina
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Astrorhizana / Order:
Saccamminida
     Family
Saccamminidae
     Genus
Thurammina
     Species
triradiata
Gutschick&Treckmann, 1959
reviewed
by a scientist
Lagynana / Order:
Allogromiida
     Family
Allogromiidae
     Genus
Allogromia
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Lagynana / Order:
Allogromiida
     Family
Allogromiidae
     Genus
Micrometula
     Species
hyalostriata
reviewed
by a scientist
Lagynana / Order:
Allogromiida
     Family
Allogromiidae
     Genus
Micrometula
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist
Lagynana / Order:
Allogromiida
     Family
Allogromiidae
     Genus
Nodellum
     Species
membranaceum
(Brady, 1879)
reviewed
by a scientist
Lagynana / Order:
Allogromiida
     Family
Allogromiidae
     Genus
Nodellum
     Species
sp.
---
reviewed
by a scientist