Challenger Reports (Zool.), vol. ix. 1884.
In Lankester's Treat. Zool. pt. i. fasc. 1. For other classifications see Eimer and Fickert in Z. wiss. Zool. lxv. 1899; Rhumbler in Lang's Protozoa, 1901; and for a full synopsis of genera and species, "Systematische Zusammenstellung der recenten Reticulosae" (pt. i. only), in Arch. Prot. iii. 1903-4, p. 181.
The type of Dujardin's genus Gromia is G. oviformis = Hyalopus dujardinii, M. Sch., which is one of the Filosa.
This convenient name is due to my friend Dr. A. Kemna of Antwerp.
The name Foraminifera was used to express the fact that the chambers communicated by pores, not by a tubular siphon as in Nautiloidea and Ammonoidea (Vol. III. pp. 393, 396).