Reophax atlantica   (Cushman, 1944)

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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 a broken specimen of Reophax atlantica (Cushman, 1944)

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

The classification is based upon: Hald, Morton and Korsun, Sergey, 1997: Distribution of modern benthic foraminifera from fjords of Svalbard, European Arctic in The Journal of Foraminiferal Research; February 1997; v. 27; no. 2; p. 101-122, Plate 1 Fig. 1