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Globigerina bulloides. This image is from Ernst Haeckel's 'Kunstforme der Natur' , written at the turn of the 19th century. The digital images have been made available through the virtual library of Kurt Stueber, from where high resolution Image copyright: image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).
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Globigerina bulloides
From the collection
Kunstforme der Natur by Ernst Haeckel
| Description of Globigerina bulloides: Test free, size variable, low to
medium trochospiral, strongly lobulate; 2 to two-
and-one-half whorls with 8 to 10 chambers, 3 to 5
globular chambers in the last whorl; chambers
spherical to slightly ovoid, well separated, size
increasing slowly; sutures deep; wall calcareous,
uniformly and densely perforated, spines simple
and with circular cross-sections; aperture umbilical,
interiomarginal, a high, symmetrical arch occasion-
ally with thin rim-like lip. |
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