“…Foraminifera in tropical mangrove environments of South America and the islands nearby have been studied since the late 1940s in Trinidad (Cushman and Brönnimann, 1948a, b;Wilson et al, 2008), the Gulf of Paria (Todd and Brönnimann, 1957), Bahia (Zaninetti et al, 1979;Hiltermann et al, 1981;Eichler et al, 2015;Laut et al, 2016), Rio de Janeiro (Brönnimann et al, 1981;Debenay et al, 2001;Barbosa et al, 2005;Laut et al, 2016;Martins et al, 2016;Gasparini and Vilela, 2017;Belart et al, 2019), Colombia (Boltovskoy and Hincapié de Martínez, 1983), Puerto Rico (Culver, 1990), French Guiana (Debenay et al, 2002(Debenay et al, , 2004, Santa Catarina (Laut et al, 2016), Sao Paulo (Eichler et al, 2007;Passos et al, 2017;Eichler et al, 2019), and Rio Grande do Sul (Laut et al, 2016;Damasio et al, 2020;Semensatto et al, 2009). Most foraminifera assemblages studied from true mangrove settings were previously reported to be dominated by agglutinated species in a low-diversity ensemble (e.g., Boltovskoy, 1984;Culver, 1990;Debenay, 1990;Murray, 1991;Brönnimann et al, 1992 and references therein).…”