Favulina melo (d'Orbigny, 1839)

Taxon Profile

from Isfjord, Spitsbergen, Arctic   recent

found in material provided by
Ekaterina Ovsepyan
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Geodynamics and Paleooceanology Laboratory, the Paleoceanographic team

View of one specimen of Favulina melo (d'Orbigny, 1839)

SEM picture taken together with Dr. Rosenfeldt
head of the Mikrobiologische Vereinigung Hamburg

The classification is based upon: Lukina, Tatiana G., 2001: Foraminifera of the Laptev Sea in Protistology 2 (2) 105-122 (2001) Fig. 78 and
as Oolina melo in Feyling-Hanssen, R. W., Jørgensen, J. A., Knudsen, K. L. and Andersen, A.-L. L. 1971: Late Quaternary Foraminifera from Vendsyssel, Denmark and Sandnes, Norway. Bull, geol. Soc. Denmark 21 (2-3), Plate 6 Fig. 5