ABSTRACT
MILIOLID SHALLOW RECENT FORAMINIFERA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND RED SEAS
Journal: Earth Sciences Pakistan (ESP)
Author: Haidar Salim Anan
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Doi: 10.26480/esp.01.2025.35.42
This study has focused on the distribution, diversity and systematic paleontology are presented with more emphasis on their modern nomenclatural aspects and ecology of 174 Miliolid foraminiferal species, belonging to 39 genera, were identified from two marine bodies: Mediterranian Sea (MS) and Red Sea (RS). One hundred and nine of these species (~ 63 %) are recorded from MS, while the other species from RS (~37%). One hundred and fifteen Miliolids species (~69%) belong to nine diagnostic genera: 39 species to Quinqueloculina, followed by 16 to Spiroloculina, 11 to Triloculina and Adelosina, 10 to Siphonaperta, 9 to Pyrgo and Cycloforina, 8 to Milliolinella and Pseudotriloculina, while the other 52 species are distributed to the other thirty genera. Twenty of these species are treated here as new: Adelosina cimermani, A. langeri, Spirophthalmidium mediterranensis, Siphonaperta italica, S. longata, Cycloforina cherifi, C. hewaidyi, Quinqucloculina bassiounii, Q. moradi, Milliolinella cimermani, M. langeri, Pseudotriloculina khetamae, P. nashwae, Pyrgo anani, P. haggagae, P. strougoi, Triloculinella hamimii, Sigmoilinita akmali, S. wagehi, and Nummoloculina boukharyi. According to the present study, the Miliolid foraminiferal assemblage has more favorable environment in the Mediterranean Sea (MS) than Red Sea (RS), which may due to more active surface water and less water salinity in MS than RS.
| Pages | 35-42 |
| Year | 2025 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Volume | 9 |
