Foraminifera

See also: foraminifera

Translingual

Allogromia lagenoides, one of the Foraminifera

Proper noun

Foraminifera

1. The foraminifers, amoeboid single-cell eukaryotes characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things are used for catching food
   1. A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Retaria.
   2. A taxonomic infraphylum within the phylum Retaria.

Hypernyms

• (subphylum): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Chromista – kingdom; Harosa – subkingdom; Rhizaria – infrakingdom; Retaria – phylum
• (infraphylum): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Chromista – kingdom; Harosa – subkingdom; Rhizaria – infrakingdom; Retaria – phylum; Ectoreta - subphylum

Hyponyms

• (subphylum): Monothalamea, Globothalamea, Tubothalamea - classes
  • Allogromiida, Astrorhizida, Psamminida, Stannomida; Carterinida, Globerigenida, Lagenida, Lituolida, Lofusiida, Robertinida, Rotaliida, Testulariida, Trochamminida; Miliolida, Spirillinida - orders

Descendants

• English: foraminifer
• → Greek: τρηματοφόρα (trimatofóra) (calque)
• → Russian: фораминифе́ра (foraminiféra)

See also

• Athalamea
• Polythalamea
• Xenophyophorea
• Foraminiferida

References

• Foraminifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Foraminifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Foraminifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Foraminifera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Foraminiferida at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Foraminifera at World Register of Marine Species
• 2018, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, "Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla", Protoplasma, 255:297-357, DOI 10.1007/s00709-017-1147-3