![]() ![]() They usually produce a test (or shell) which can have one or moreĬhambers, and are made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or mineral grains or other particles glued together. That branch and merge to form a dynamic net. Search the recent (living) taxa then tick the 'extant' box in the Taxon Search window.įoraminifera (‘hole bearers’), foraminifers or forams for short, are a large phylum ofĪmoeboid protozoans (single celled) with reticulating pseudopods, fine strands of cytoplasm ![]() The default setting is to search the whole database of fossil and recent species. Searching the database (fossil and/or recent) Initiative to provide a register of all marine organisms. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global This World Database of all species of Foraminifera ever described (recent and fossil), is part of the Current number of valid recent species recorded: 8 967Ĭurrent number of valid fossil species recorded: 40 911Ĭurrent number of total valid (fossil + recent) species recorded: 49 004
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