New extended biogeographic distributions are presented for 24 taxa of benthic foraminifera collected in La Cienaga de Ocumare, Aragua State, Venezuela. Of these, Ammonia convexa (Collins 1958), Pseudotriloculina cuneata (Karrer, 1867), Quinqueloculina sulcata (d'Orbigny in Fornasini, 1900) and Siphonaperta distorqueata (Cushman, 1954) stand out for being their first record for the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, the other twenty species have extended their geographical range to the Southern Caribbean and Venezuela. Among them, twelve species of benthic foraminifera have extended their original geographic location inside the coastline of Venezuela. The new geographical locations for all these benthic foraminifera highlight the importance of recording the presence of foraminifera in diverse marine environments, which could bring surprises, especially for rare species.
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