56 FORAMINIFERA 



FAMILY 1. ALLOGROMIIDAE 



Test either wanting or of chitin, not porous; aperture either 

 single or at each end of the test, the surface of the test sometimes 

 with attached foreign materials ; fresh and brackish water, some- 

 times marine, not known as fossils. 



Subfamily 1. Myxothecinae. 



Test when present of thin chitin, not rigid, the aperture not 

 definite but the pseudopodia capable of being pushed out through 

 any part of the exterior ; mostly marine. 



Genus SCHULTZELLA Rhumbler, 1903 



Plate 1, figure 1 

 Genoholotype, Schultzia diffluens Gruber 

 Schultzella Rhumbler, Arch. Prot., vol. 3, 1903, p. 197. 

 Lieberkuhnia (part) Gruber, Nova Acta Acad. Leop., vol. 46, 1884, p. 



484. 

 Schultzia Gruber, Ber. Ges. Freiberg, vol. 4, 1889, p. 36 (not of Grimm, 



1877). 

 Test hardly distinguishable, of thin chitin which may be 

 broken at any point for emission of the pseudopodia, generally 

 spherical, without foreign material on the surface. 

 Recent. Mediterranean. 



Genus MYXOTHECA Schaudinn, 1893 



Plate 1, figure 2 

 Genoholotype, Myxotheca arenilega Schaudinn 

 Myxotheca Schaudinn, Zeitschr. Wiss. ZooL, vol. 57, 1893, p. 18. 

 Pleuro-phrys Gruber, Nova Acta Acad. Leop., vol. 46, 1884, p. 486 (not 



of Claparede and Lachmann, 1859). 

 Test consisting of a thin chitinous layer, the body of the 

 animal generally spherical or flattened on the base, somewhat 

 changeable in shape, surface with occasional attached foreign 

 material. 



Recent. Mediterranean and Atlantic. 



Genus BODERIA Str. Wright, 1867 

 Plate 1, figure 3 



Genoholotype, Boderia turneri Str. Wright 

 Boderia Str. Wright, Journ. Anat. and Physiol., vol. 1, 1867, p. 335. 

 Test extremely thin and delicate, colorless body of changeable 



