''Peneroplis'' is an extant genus of benthic Foraminifera in the family

Peneroplidae Peneroplidae is a family of foraminifera in the superfamily Soritacea The Soritoidea are a group of miliolid benthic foraminifera with porcellaneous tests. They take on a variety of growth forms but typically have many chambers. Some soriti ...

. The genus is also represented in the fossil record. ''Peneroplis'' dwell in upper photic zone. They favour tropical to temperate shallow marine environments, feeding on

diatom A diatom (Neo-Latin ''diatoma''), "a cutting through, a severance", from el, διάτομος, diátomos, "cut in half, divided equally" from el, διατέμνω, diatémno, "to cut in twain". is any member of a large group comprising sev ...

sLorenzo Consorti, Christopher Ronald James Kavazos, Cliff Ford, Margaret Smith, David W. Haig, High productivity of Peneroplis (Foraminifera) including aberrant morphotypes, in an inland thalassic salt pond at Lake Macleod, Western Australia, Marine Micropaleontology, Volume 160, 2020, 101919, ISSN 0377-8398, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101919.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377839820301419)

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Tubothalamea Foraminifera genera {{Foram-stub

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