APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

A-P-H-O-T-O Wildlife Stock Image Library
Lenticulina rotulata (Lamarck, 1804) - A vaginulinid foram (Foraminifera images)
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Vaginulinid foram
Lenticulina rotulata
- specimen from Carrick Roads, Falmouth, Cornwall, images by Cai-Uso Wohler.

Lenticulina rotulata here displayed was in sand collected by Adrian Brokenshire at an unknown location at Carrick Roads, Falmouth, Cornwall, collection date unknown. The identification is based upon "Cushman, J., A., 1923: The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part 4. Lagenidae. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 104. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104. Plate 28, Fig. 1,2", the species has not been verified.

In Cornwall this species was occasionally found by Edward Heron-Allen FRS between 1916 and 1929, being found around the Eddystone, he reported it to be generally distributed.
Ref: Cornish ERICA database.

The images here are examples of the superb supermacro photography of Cai-Uso Wohler. Pleae visit SANDPHOTO.DE to see more of Cai-Uso's work. All photographs here are the copyright of Cai-Uso Wohler of SANDPHOTO.DE @ http://www.cuwohler.de/

Original name:
Lenticulites rotulata Lamarck, 1804
Synonymised names:
Cristellaria rotulata (Lamarck, 1804)
Lenticulina comptoni (Sowerby, 1818) (Subjective junior synonym in opinion of Frenzel (2000))
Lenticulina rotundata (Lamarck, 1804) (misspelling)
Lenticulites rotulata Lamarck, 1804
Nautilus comptoni Sowerby, 1818 (foraminifer erroneously described in a mollusc genus)
Robulina rotulata (Lamarck, 1804)
Ref. WoRMS

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Lenticulina rotulata vaginulinid foram from Carrick Roads Falmouth images by Cai-uso wohler von SANDPHOTO.DE at www.cuwohler.de foraminifera images
The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help
people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.