Catalogus

This project has not been able to compile a list of living marine brachiopods for Europe. However, the list produced for Britain, Ireland and adjacent seas by Howson (1997) is considered a valuable starting point. This is the provided here. Indeed, it includes all the species recorded for Norwegian waters by Thomsen and Brattegard (1996).

The taxonomy of recent brachiopods and the species known from the British Isles have changed little since Brunton & Curry (1979), and the checklist is therefore based on this publication.

References

• Brunton, C.H.C. & Curry, G.B. 1979. British Brachiopods. Synopses of the British Fauna (N.S.). No. 17. 64 pp. Linnean Society, London and E.B.S.A. Academic Press, London.
• Curry, G.B. 1982. Ecology and population structure of the recent brachipod Terebratulina from Scotland. Palaeontology 25(2), 227 - 246.
• Curry, G.B. 1983. Ecology of the recent deep water rhynchonellid brachiopod Cryptopora from the Rockall Trough. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 44, 93 - 102.
• Lee & Brunton, C.H.C. 1986. Neocrania n. gen., and a revision of Cretaceous - recent brachiopod genera in the family Craniidae. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geol.) 40(4), 141 - 160.
• Ryland, J.S. 1990. Lophophorate phyla. In: The marine fauna of the Britsh Isles and North West Europe. P.J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland, eds, 2: 794-838, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
• Thomsen, E. & Brattegard T. 1997. Brachiopoda. In: Brattegard T. and Holthue T., Distribution of marine, benthic macro-organisms in Norway. Research Report for DN 1997-1, Directorate for Nature Management, 296-297 pp.