Pyrgo sp.

  found at the bottom of the Faroe-Shetland Channel     
neritic to bathyal     recent     Taxon Profile

View of one specimen of Pyrgo sp.
the aperture is broken a bit

Specimen found in material collected during cruise 95 of RV Valdivia in 1990
Image provided by Onno Groß

Image provided and classification is done by Onno Groß, a professional foraminiferologist and President of

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The Image was first published in: Onno Groß, 1991: Die Verteilung der Meiofauna und der Foraminiferen am untermeerischen Hang der Färöer Inseln,
Diplomarbeit, Institut für Hydrobiologie und Fischereiwirtschaft, Universität Hamburg