LAGENIDAE (PLATES 56-61, LVI-LXI) 



Brady, Sidebottom (Lagenae of the Pacific), Cushman (Monographs of the North Pacific, Atlantic and Philip- 

 pine Foraminifera), Heron-Allen and Earland (Discovery Reports, Foraminifera), Buchner (Die Lagenen des 

 Golfes von Neapel, 1940) and Matthes (Die Lagenen des deutschen Tertiars, 1939) all make use of the genus 

 Lagena only, including under this heading Entosolenia, Fissurina, Ellipsolagena, Oolina, etc. This tends to over- 

 load the genus, and render specific identification a rather tedious process. This was recognized by W. J. Parr 

 and in 1945 he published his paper, "The Lagenid Foraminifera and Their Relationships" (Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Victoria, N.S., Vol. 68, Pts. I-II, published 1947, pp. 116-130, pis. vi-vii). 



Parr had access to a very large amount of comparative material and great experience with both recent and 

 fossil foraminifera. He proposed the following classification: 

 LAGENA Walker and Boys 1784 (with apertural neck and no entosolenian tube). 



Genotype: L. sulcata Walker and Jacob 1798. 

 OOLINA d'Orbigny 1839 (with entosolenian tube, with or without an apertural neck and circular in cross- 

 section. Entosolenia in synonymy). 

 Genotype: Oolina laevigata d'Orbigny 1839. 

 FISSURINA Reuss 1850 (with entosolenian tube, with or without an apertural neck and compressed in cross- 

 section). 



Genotype: F. laevigata Reuss 1850. 

 PARAFISSURINA Parr, nov. (with entosolenian tube and with a subterminal aperture). 

 Genotype: Lagena ventricosa A. Silvestri 1904. 



Parr gives an admirable summary of the history of Lagenid nomenclature and his classification is regarded as 

 an eminently practical one. As far as possible it has been adopted in the notes to the figures on plates LVI-LXI_ 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 56 (LVI) 



Figs. 1-3, X 60-75; Figs. 4-18, 30-32, X 75; Figs. 19-29, X 60; Figs. 33-35, X 75; Fig. 36, X 50. 

 Figures 1-3. — Oolina globosa (Montagu). 



Fig. 1. Challenger Sta. 224, North Pacific. (1850 fathoms) 

 Fig. 2. Challenger Sta. 162, Bass Strait, Pacific. (38-40 fathoms) 

 Fig. 3. Challenger Sta. 300, North Pacific. (1375 fathoms) 

 Referred by Brady to Lagena and by Parr (B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Exped., Repts., Ser. B, Vol. 5, 

 Pt. 6, 1950, p. 302) to Oolina. 

 Figure 4. — Oolina felsinea (Fornasini). 



Challenger Sta. 276, South Pacific. (2350 fathoms) 

 Referred by Brady to Lagena apiculata (Reuss). The entosolenian tube will place this in Oolina according to 

 Parr 1947. Fornasini (1894, privately printed note) referred this figure to Lagena felsinea. 

 Figure 5. — Oolina ovum (Ehrenberg). 



Challenger Sta. 241, North Pacific. (2300 fathoms) 

 Referred by Brady to Lagena. 

 Figure 6. — Oolina botelliformis (Brady). 



Challenger Sta. 352A, Cape Verde Islands. (11 fathoms) 

 Referred by Brady to Lagena. 

 Figures 7-9. — Lagena laevis (Montagu). 



Figs. 7, 8. Challenger Sta. 315A, Falkland Islands, S. Atlantic. (6 fathoms) 

 Fig. 9. Challenger Sta. 185, Torres Strait, Pacific. (155 fathoms) 

 Figures 10, 11. — Lagena hispidula Cushman. 



Fig. 10. Challenger Sta. 160, Southern Ocean. (2600 fathoms) 

 Fig. 11. Challenger Sta. 332, South Atlantic. (2200 fathoms) 

 Referred by Brady to L. laevis (Montagu) and by Cushman to L. laevis var. nebulosa (U.S.N.M. Bull. 104, 

 Pt. 4, 1923, p. 29). Cushman also referred figs. 12 and ?13, ?14 to this variety (see below) but in 1913 (U.S.N.M. 

 Bull. 71, Pt. 3, p. 14) had already referred figs. 10, 11 to L. hispidula. Buchner (Nova Acta Leopoldina, n.f.. 

 Vol. 9, No. 62, 1940, p. 421) refers figs. 10-12, not 13, 14 to L. nebulosa Cushman with no reference to L. his- 

 pidula. L. nebulosa is restricted here to fig. 12. Matthes (1939) referred fig. 10 and ?11 to L. hispida Reuss. 

 Figure 12. — Lagena nebulosa Cushman. 



Challenger Sta. 279C, Tahiti, Pacific. (620 fathoms) 

 Referred by Brady to L. laevis (Montagu) and by Cushman (1. c. supra) and Buchner (1. c. supra) to 

 L. nebulosa. 

 Figure 13. — Lagena hispidula Cushman? 



Challenger Sta. 5, S.W. of the Canaries, Atlantic. (2740 fathoms) 

 Referred by Brady to L. laevis (Montagu). 



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