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Alegret, Ortiz & Kaminski (eds.), 2012. Ninth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Abstract Volume
The new and reinstated genera of agglutinated foraminifera published between
2008 and 2012
Michael A. KAMINSKI
Earth Sciences Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, PO Box 301, Dhahran,
31261, Saudi Arabia.
e-mail: kaminski@kfupm.edu.sa
The Agglutinated Foraminifera comprise a large and polyphyletic group of organisms that
have developed an organic walled or agglutinated test. Recent molecular studies have pointed
out that the Textularida (sensu Loeblich & Tappan, 1987) does not comprise a natural group
of organisms – the ability to construct an agglutinated wall probably arose independently
within different foraminiferal lineages. The validity of the Loeblich & Tappan classification
or any other scheme based on morphological criteria alone has been brought into question by
the results of both morphological comparissons and molecular studies (Pawlowski et al.,
2003; Mikhalevich, 2004). Nevertheless, a classification scheme of the agglutinated
foraminifera that includes all the known modern and fossil genera is a desirable goal that
ought to be pursued. In the latest update of the Loeblich & Tappan (1987) classification
scheme a total of 747 genera were recognized as valid (Kaminski, 2004). With the inclusion
of the allogromids and Xenophyophoracea into the classification scheme and another decade
of descriptive work, the number of agglutinated genera recognized as valid has now risen to
847. In the four years since the last Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera a total of 23
new genera have been described, including:
ALZONORBITOPSELLA BouDagher-Fadel, 2008
BOWSERIA Sinniger, Lecroq, Majewski, & Pawłowski, 2008
CONICOTHEKA Gooday, Todo, Uematsu & Kitazato, 2008
EOBIGENERINA Cetean, Setoyama, Kaminski, Neagu, Bubík, Filipescu & Tyszka, 2008
GOODAYIA Sergeeva & Anikeeva, 2008
RECTOPROTOMARSSONELLA Kaminski, Bubík & Cetean, 2008
CUNEOSPIRELLA Cherchi, Schroeder & Ruberti, 2009
GERACIA Lewis, 2009
LEPTAMMINA Cedhagen, Gooday & Pawłowski, 2009
NIVEUS Altin, Habura & Goldstein, 2009
PLECTOERATIDUS Kaminski, Setoyama & Tyszka, 2009
SHINKAIYA Lecroq, Gooday, Tsuchiya, & Pawłowski, 2009
CAPSAMMINA Gooday, da Silva, Koho, & Lecroq, 2010
CARTERIELLA Haig & McCartain, 2010
CEDHAGENIA Gooday, Anikeeva & Pawłowski, 2010
NELLYA Gooday, Anikeeva & Pawłowski, 2010
XIPHOPHAGA Goldstein, Habura, Richardson & Bowser, 2010
AMMOGLOBOROTALOIDES Kaminski & Contreras, 2011
BITHEKAMMINA Aranda de Silva, Gooday, Pearse & Cunha, 2011
DUBROVNIKELLA Schlagintweit & Velić, 2011
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