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Subfamily Nubeculariinae 



Genus PARRINA Cushman, 1931 



Parrina Cushman, Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 7, p. 20, 1931. 

 Silvestria Schubert, Pal. Zeitschr., vol. 3, p. 166, 1920. — Cushman, Cushman 



Lab. Foram. Res. Spec. Publ. No. 1, p. 169, 1928. 

 Nubecularia (part) of authors. 



Genoholotype. — Nubecularia inflata H. B. Brady (not Terquem) = 

 N. bradyi Millett. 



Test with the early chambers where visible irregularly coiled, later 

 chambers inflated and very irregular, sometimes coiled, sometimes 

 in an irregular linear arrangement; wall calcareous, imperforate; 

 aperture variable in shape, often rounded, and irregularly placed. 



Recent. 



This genus is represented in the Indo-Pacific in shallow water of 

 coral reef regions by the following species, bradyi. 



PARRINA BRADYI (Millett) 



Plate 17, Figures 1-A 



Nubecularia inflata H. B. Brady (not Terquem), Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, 

 vol. 9, p. 135, pi. 1, figs. 5-8, 1SS4. — A. Silvestri, Atti Accad. Sci. Acireale, 

 vol. 7, p. 30, 1895-96 ; Mem. Accad. Pont. Nuovi Lincei, vol. 50, p. 35, 1897.— 

 Bagg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, p. 116, 1908.— Cushman, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 104, pt. 6, p. 98, 1929. 



Nubecularia bradyi Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1898, p. 261, pi. 5, figs. 6a, 

 b.— Chapman, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 28, p. 169, pi. 19, fig. 3, 1900.— 

 SiDEBOTTOM, Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc, vol. 48, no. 5, p. 3, 

 1904.— Rhumbler, Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., vol. 24, p. 40, pi. 2, figs. 17-19, 

 1906.— Chapman, Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 10, p. 119, 1907.— 

 Siderottom, Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc, vol. 54, no. 16, p. 2, 

 1910. — Heron-Allen and Earland, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1911, p. 300. — 

 Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 49, p. 993, 1914. — Chapman, 

 Victorian Nat., vol. 32, p. 49, fig. 1 (in test), 1915. — Heron-Allen and 

 Earland, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 20, p. 550, pi. 40, figs. 8-10, 1915.— 

 Cushman, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 71, pt. 6, p. 41, pi. 8, figs. 4, 5, 1917; 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, p. 636, 1919. — Heron-Allen and Earland, 

 British Antarctic Expedition, Zoology, vol. 6, p. 60, 1922; Journ. Linn. 

 Soc Zool., vol. 35, p. 601, 1924; Trans. Zool. Soc London, vol. 22, pt. 1, 

 p. 68 (list), 1926. 



Silvestria bradyi Schubert, Pal. Zeitschr., vol. 3, p. 166, 1920. — Cushman, 

 Cushman Lab. Foram. Res. Spec. Publ. No. 1, pi. 53, figs. 11-13, 1928. 



Parrina bradyi Cushman, Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 7, p. 20, 

 1931. 



Test very irregular in form, the early portion often showing signs 

 of coiling but early becoming irregular in form and shape ; chambers 

 inflated, globular, irregularly arranged, either in a loose coil or in a 

 more or less linear series; wall smooth, calcareous, imperforate, 

 polished; aperture rounded, or very irregular in form and irregularly 

 placed. Diameter of test, up to 1 mm. 



