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original description(of)King, W. (1868). On some palliobranchiate shells from the Irish Atlantic. <em>Natural History Society of Dublin, Proceedings.</em> 5:170–173.[details]
taxonomy sourceDall, W. H. (1873). Catalogue of the recent species of the class Brachiopoda. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 25: 177-204., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1966789 note: Moved species from Discina to Discinisca. [details]
context source (Deepsea)Zezina O.N. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Brachiopoda. <i>Invertebrate Zoology</i>. Vol.11. No.1: 83–88 [in English]., available online athttps://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.11.1.07[details] Available for editors
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additional sourceFoster, M. W. (1974). Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic brachiopods. <em>American Geophysical Union, Antarctic Research Series.</em> 21:189 p., 39 fig., 25 pl. note: Describes material from off Antarctica. [details]
additional sourceLiu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional sourceEmig, C. C. (2017). Atlas of Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic Brachiopoda. <em>Carnets de Géologie, Madrid, CG2017_B03.</em> 93 pp.[details] Available for editors
additional sourceZezina, O. N. (1990). Rare and New Brachiopods from the Southern Part of the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Trudy Instituta Okeanologii im. P. P. Shirshova, Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 126: 127-131. note: Zezina (1990) records specimens from the abyssal South Atlantic. [details] Available for editors
new combination referenceDall, W. H. (1908). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 43(6): 205-487, pls 1-22., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28878051 note: Dall (1908) moved the species to his new genus Pelagodiscus. However, at the time he classed as a 'section' of Discinisca, i.e., Discinisca (sect. Pelagodiscus) atlantica (see Dall, 1908, p. 440). [details]
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