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Type: Article
Published: 2013-12-10
Page range: 161–174
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New records of Recent Brachiopoda from the Red Sea with a description of a new species 

Centre for Coastal Studies, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., E2L 4L5, Canada.
Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland
Recent Brachiopoda Red Sea Minutella Thecidellina Argyrotheca

Abstract

A revised checklist of 14 Recent brachiopod species from Egypt and the Sudan in the Red Sea has been compiled. New records of Minutella minuta (Cooper), Thecidellina blochmanni Dall and Argyrotheca somaliensis Cooper are described and a new species Argyrotheca cooperi is erected for specimens with few but very strong costae. The new records support earlier suggestions that the affinities of the Red Sea brachiopod fauna are with those of the Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific areas.