Deep-Sea taxon details
Xenobrochus africanus (Cooper, 1973)
235518 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:235518)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh
(of ) Cooper, G. A. (1973). New Brachiopoda from the Indian Ocean. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> (16): 1-45., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.16.1 [details]
Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Xenobrochus africanus (Cooper, 1973). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=235518 on 2026-07-08
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Xenobrochus africanus (Cooper, 1973). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=235518 on 2026-07-08
original description
(of ) Cooper, G. A. (1973). New Brachiopoda from the Indian Ocean. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> (16): 1-45., available online at https://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 at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Logan, 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 source Bitner, A. (2015). Checklist of recent brachiopod species collected during the Terrasses and Exbodi cruises in the New Caledonian region, SW Pacific. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 537: 33-50., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6567 [details]
additional source Emig, C. C. (2017). Atlas of Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic Brachiopoda. <em>Carnets de Géologie, Madrid, CG2017_B03.</em> 93 pp. [details] Available for editors
new combination reference Cooper, G. A. (1981). Brachiopoda from the Southern Indian Ocean (Recent). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> (43): 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.43.1 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Logan, 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 source Bitner, A. (2015). Checklist of recent brachiopod species collected during the Terrasses and Exbodi cruises in the New Caledonian region, SW Pacific. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 537: 33-50., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6567 [details]
additional source Emig, C. C. (2017). Atlas of Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic Brachiopoda. <em>Carnets de Géologie, Madrid, CG2017_B03.</em> 93 pp. [details] Available for editors
new combination reference Cooper, G. A. (1981). Brachiopoda from the Southern Indian Ocean (Recent). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> (43): 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.43.1 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 550375a, verbatimGeounit RV Anton Bruun, Crui... [details]
