TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Recent species in the craniid genus Novocrania are reviewed, based on the examination of actual specimens wherever possible, especially for species named from one or a few specimens. The fourteen Recent species currently in the literature are reduced to eight; five species names are synonymized. One species name was given to a specimen that is not a craniid. The wide morphological ranges of the remaining Novocrania species are described and figured and the extended geographical ranges illustrated. Diagnoses of the remaining species are provided. The long-standing debate whether Novocrania anomala and N. turbinata are separate species or synonyms is resolved; they are separate species. New molecular analyses and a relative time-tree are provided by Cohen et al. (Appendix 1), the time-tree is calibrated herein and the results of Cohen et al. (2014; Appendix 1) and the time tree are discussed. The likelihood of craniid long-distance migration based on their geographical ranges is discussed.
A1  - Robinson, J. H.
DO  - 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.1
JO  - Zootaxa
IS  - 6
SP  - 501
EP  - 559
C1  - 4329(6): 501-559
TI  - A review of all Recent species in the genus Novocrania (Craniata, Brachiopoda)
UR  - https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=288436
VL  - 4329
PY  - 2017
Y2  - 2026-05-20
ER  -