Iridia

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

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1. ^ Kaminski MA (2014). "The year 2010 classification of the agglutinated foraminifera". Micropaleontology. 60 (1). The Micropaleontology Project., Inc.: 89–108.
2. ^ Heron-Allen & Earland (1914). "Iridia". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
3. ^ Heron-Allen E, Earland A (1914). "The Foraminifera of the Kerimba Archipelago (Portuguese East Africa) -Part I". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 20 (12): 363–390.

Taxon identifiers

Iridia|

* Wikidata: Q22984199
* Wikispecies: Iridia
* CoL: 7P78B
* iNaturalist: 532797
* IRMNG: 1400586
* ITIS: 44034
* NZOR: 0c05e305-0393-4b74-a5f6-fbb8747382f8
* Open Tree of Life: 4918704
* Paleobiology Database: 246080
* WoRMS: 204583