Recent brachiopods collected during the ZhongSha 2015 expedition to the South China Sea, West Pacific

ABSTRACT

Fourteen species of Recent brachiopods belonging to the genera Novocrania, Basiliola, Acanthobasiliola, Gryphus, Zygonaria, Terebratulina, Eucalathis, Laqueus, Frenulina, Annuloplatidia, Phaneropora, Dallina and Campages have been identified in the samples collected during the French–Taiwanese ZhongSha 2015 expedition to the South China Sea, West Pacific. Five species were already described from this region. The remaining species represent first records for the South China Sea, among them two species, Annuloplatidia curiosa and Phaneropora galatheae are recorded for the first time in the northern hemisphere.

SUBJECT EDITOR:

• Danny Eibye Jacobsen

KEYWORDS:

• Brachiopoda
• South China Sea
• West Pacific
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks are extended to P. Bouchet (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris) for the opportunity to study the material. We are very grateful to P. Maestrati for sorting the material, and to P. Lozouet and J. Mainguy (all MNHN, Paris) for providing facilities during the visit at the Museum. J.H. Robinson (University of Otago, Dunedin) is thanked for helpful discussions on craniid brachiopods and the access to his unpublished data. We also wish to thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor D. E. Jacobsen for their comments that helped to improve the manuscript. The macrophotos were taken by G. Dziewińska (Institute of Paleobiology, Warszawa) to whom we are very grateful.

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