A REVISION OF THE BRACHIOPOD SUBFAMILY KINGENINAE ELLIOTT

111 sayfa. 18x24 cm
Although RISSO's collection has not been found, the current list of twelve recent brachiopod species and thirteen fossil ones identified and described by RISSO (1826) in the marine and terrestrial vicinities of Nice deserves revision by taking into account the synonyms accepted today. Adding Argyrotheca cistellula reported in 1920, the list of the extant species of brachiopods collected in the Mediterranean Sea has remained the same until 1994, date from which it increases by two species. Three of the species described by RISSO as belonging to Terebratula have been attributed as new species to him: Joania cordata, Argyrotheca cuneata, Lacazella mediterranea, all three are type species of their genus. For the fossil species, only two were identified as synonyms for Terebratula terebratula. Criticized several times, sometimes too severely, for his works on the Mollusca, to which the Brachiopoda were attributed, RISSO (1826) as an amateur naturalist completed a honourable work on this lat

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