Holotype USNM 550343a, geounit Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Verhoeff, T. (2024). World Brachiopoda Database. Nipponithyris afra Cooper, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=235702 on 2024-09-08
original descriptionCooper, G. A. (1973). New Brachiopoda from the Indian Ocean. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> (16): 1-45., available online athttps://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.16.1[details]
context source (Deepsea)Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online athttp://www.iobis.org/[details]
basis of recordLogan, A. (2007). Geographic distribution of extant articulated brachiopods. <em>In: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Brachiopoda (revised), vol.6, 3082–3115. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.</em> [details]
additional sourceZezina, O. N. (1994). Recent Brachiopods from Underwater Rises of the Western Part of the Indian Ocean. <em>Trudy Instituta Okeanologii im. P. P. Shirshova, Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 129: 44-52. note: Records further specimens from the Mozambique Channel. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceBitner, M.A.; Romanin, M. (2017). Recent brachiopods from the South China Sea, NW Pacific. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4306(2): 287-290., available online athttps://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.9 note: First record of Nipponithyris afra from northern hemisphere (South China Sea). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceLaurin, B. (1997). Brachiopodes récoltés dans les eaux de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyauté, Matthew et Chesterfield. <em>in: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 18. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.</em> 176, 411-471. (look up in IMIS) note: Expands distribution of species to the New Caledonian EEZ. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 550343a, geounit Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]