Elphidium crispum (Linné, 1758)                    Taxon Profile

  found in material from a seaweed meadow at 6-8m depth,
forereef near Al Qusair, Red Sea, Egypt
in material provided by Johannes Kalbe

View of one specimen of Elphidium crispum (Linné, 1758)

SEM picture taken by Karl-Otto Bock together with Dr. Rosenfeldt
head of the Mikrobiologische Vereinigung

The classification is based upon: Hottinger, l., Halicz, E. and Reiss, Z. 1993. Recent Foraminiferida from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umenosti (Ljubljana), classis IV, dela vol. 33, Page 151, Plate 216.

according to Hottinger et. al. various authors classify this spieces as E. crispum whereas they classify it differently as Elphidium sp. C, as it differs from the Linné type figure e.g. by smaller size, less chambers per coli and greater thickness.