A review of all Recent species in the genus Novocrania (Craniata, Brachiopoda)
Author
Jeffrey H Robinson
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-10-10
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10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.1
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Novocrania indoneSienSiS
(Zezina, 1981)
Stratigraphic range: Recent
1981:
Crania indonesiensis
Zezina
,
1981
,
Galathea Report, Ƒolume
15
, p. 9, text-fig. 1, pl. 1, fig.
1–3
. 1986:
Neocrania indonesiensis
Zezina, Lee & Brunton,
Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus.
(
Geol.
), 40 (4), p. 152. 2001:
Novocrania indonesiensis
Zezina, Lee & Brunton,
Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus.
(
Geol.
), 57 (1), p. 5
.
Synonymy.
Zezina (1981) named species
C. indonesiensis
based on a single dorsal valve from the Coral Sea. Lee & Brunton (1986) placed
Crania indonesiensis
in
Neocrania
and Lee & Brunton (2001) placed it into
Novocrania
.
Type
material and
type
locality.
The
type
specimen is held in the Zoology Museum, Copenhagen,
Denmark
(ZMUC-Bra-20). The
type
locality is the Coral Sea,
Indonesia
,
7.48°S
,
114.81°E
(Zezina 1981).
Material examined.
The
holotype
of
N. indonesiensis
was borrowed from the Zoology Museum, Copenhagen (
Table 7
).
Description.
The valve is small,
6 mm
long and 6 wide, and sub-quadrate (
Fig. 16J, K
). The exterior is hummocky and mottled white and light brown. The muscle scars are white, the posterior adductor muscle scars are sub-round, the anterior adductor slow-muscle scars are reniform, the support structure scars are crescent shaped and the small anterior muscle scars are separated (
Fig. 16L
).
Ecology.
The specimen from
Indonesia
was collected at
240 m
(Zezina 1981).
Remarks.
This specimen is similar to dorsal valves of
N. huttoni
in its colouring and hummocky surface and may be synonymous with that species. Without a ventral valve, and preferably some more specimens, the status of this species cannot be determined. The species
N. indonesiensis
is retained until more material is available.