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 Xenobrochus australis Cooper, 1981 ( Fig. 6A–D ) This micromorphic short-looped species, the second representative of the family Dyscoliidae , is noted for the first time from the Norfolk Ridge. It was collected on three seamounts ( Tables 1 , 2) during the Norfolk 1 and 2 cruises and has a depth range of 200 to 967 m ( Fig. 14 ). Like D. johannisdavisi , X. australis was originally described from the Indian Ocean ( Cooper 1981 ). Laurin (1997) recorded two other species of Xenobrochus from the New Caledonian region ― X. africanus ( Cooper, 1973b ) and X. indianensis ( Cooper, 1973b ) . The material from the Norfolk Ridge differs from X. africanus in the outline of the loop and the presence of a narrow median fold on the transverse band ( Fig. 6C, D ), which is absent in X. africanus ( Cooper 1973b , 1983 ; Hiller 1986 ). In turn, X. indianensis can be distinguished from the studied specimens by the more incurved beak with a partly concealed symphytium and distinct cardinal process ( Cooper 1973b , 1983 ).