Recent Brachiopoda from the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia, with description of four new species
Author
Bitner, Maria Aleksandra
text
Zootaxa
2009
2235
1
39
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190398
5781f612-65d4-4817-8aa7-5091a042a326
1175-5326
190398
Eucalathis rugosa
Cooper, 1973
a
(
Fig. 7A
)
This is the only representative of the family
Chlidonophoridae
in the studied material. This micromorphic species was found in only two samples, on Crypthelia and Introuvable seamounts (
Tables 1
, 2). Its depth range on the
Norfolk
Ridge is
200 to 616 m
(
Fig. 14
).
Eucalathis rugosa
is reported for the first time from the
Norfolk
Ridge, but is already known from the vicinity of
New Caledonia
(d’Hondt 1987;
Laurin 1997
). The species was originally described from off the
Philippines
(
Cooper 1973a
) and has a wide distribution in the western Pacific from the southern part of the Emperor Seamounts, through
Fiji
and
Wallis and Futuna
islands, to the slope of Tasmania (
Zezina 1981b
,
c
; Bitner 2008). It was also identified in a collection from the western part of the Indian Ocean (
Zezina 1987
,
1994
).