Iridia

Short description: Genus of foraminifera

Iridia

Iridia diaphana
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Clade:  | Diaphoretickes
Clade:  | SAR
Phylum:  | Retaria
Subphylum:  | Foraminifera
Class:  | Monothalamea
Order:  | Astrorhizida
Suborder:  | Saccamminina
Superfamily:  | Saccamminoidea
Family:  | Saccamminidae
Subfamily:  | Tholosininae
Genus:  | Iridia
Heron-Allen & Earland (1914)
Type species
Iridia diaphana

Heron-Allen & Earland (1914)

Species

* I. convexa
* I. diaphana
* I. lucida
* I. serialis

Iridia is a genus of foraminifera belonging to the subfamily Tholosininae.[1] It contains four species.[2] The first species, I. diaphana, was discovered in the Querimba archipelago by scientists Edward Heron-Allen and Arthur Earland, who first described the genus in 1914.[3]

## References

1. ↑ "The year 2010 classification of the agglutinated foraminifera". Micropaleontology (The Micropaleontology Project., Inc.) 60 (1): 89–108. 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24413648.
2. ↑ Heron-Allen & Earland (1914). "Iridia". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204583.
3. ↑ "The Foraminifera of the Kerimba Archipelago (Portuguese East Africa) -Part I". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 20 (12): 363–390. 1914. https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=sourceget&id=146512.

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