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Lagena spicata
Cushman and McCulloch, 1950

Taxon Profile

found in material provided by Kirsten
from the beach of  Kemp, Queensland, Australia   recent

View of one specimen of Lagena spicata Cushman and McCulloch, 1950, with a broken basal spine

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

The classification is based upon: Alfred R. Loeblich and Helen Tappan, March 1994: Foraminifera of the Sahul Shelf and Timor Sea in Journal of Foraminiferal Research, Special Publications 31, sometimes referred to as Lagena sulcata var. spicata Cushman and McCulloch, 1950, differs from L. sulcata by its basal spine
            Lagena spicata, Kemp, Queensland, Australia