Calcarina spengleri Spengler's Foram

Calcarina spengleri is commonly referred to as Spengler's Foram. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Calcarina spengleri - Foraminiferen

Größe dieser Foraminifere ~ 3 mm. Vorkommen in japanischen Gewässern, Mikronesien u. Papua Neuguinea. Wird oft mit Lebendgestein in Meerwasser Aquarien eingebracht.

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Scientific:: Calcarina spengleri
German:: Spenglers Foraminifere
English:: Spengler's Foram

Category:: Foraminiferi

Family tree:: Chromista (Kingdom) > Foraminifera (Phylum) > Globothalamea (Class) > Rotaliida (Order) > Calcarinidae (Family) > Calcarina (Genus) > spengleri (Species)
Initial determination:: (Gmelin, ), 1791

Occurrence:: Australia, Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, Japan, Komodo (Komodo Island), Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi
Size:: 0.2" - 0.08" (0.5cm - 0.2cm)
Temperature:: °F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C)
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Calcarina baculatus
Calcarina defrancei
Calcarina exuberans
Calcarina gaimardi
Calcarina gaudichaudii
Calcarina guamensis
Calcarina hainanensis
Calcarina hispida
Calcarina mayori
Calcarina quoyi
Calcarina rustica
Calcarina samarensis
Calcarina spengleri
Spenglers Foraminifere
Calcarina tetraedra

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2015-06-06 19:56:43
Last edit:: 2015-06-06 19:56:43

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Calcarina spengleri (Gmelin, 1791)

Foraminifera are commonly called as forams.They have shells that are commonly made of calcium carbonate. Forams are usually less than 1 mm sized,but there are much larger species (largest reaching up to 20 cm).

Synonyms:
Nautilus spengleri
Nautilus spengleri var. alpha
Nautilus spengleri var. beta
Nautilus spengleri var. delta
Nautilus spengleri var. epsilon
Nautilus spengleri var. gamma
Nautilus unguiculatus (foraminifer erroneously described in a mollusc genus

External links

ResearchGate (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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