original description
Zezina O. N., 1980. On composition, distribution and some biological features of the cold water brachiopods in the Southern Hemisphere [in Russian]. In: Ecological investigations of the shelf, Shirshov Inst. Oceanol. Moscow, p. 9-35.
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basis of record
Thomson, J. A. (1918). Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, Under the Leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson, D.Sc., B.E., Brachiopoda. <em>Scientific Reports (series C).</em> 4(3): 1-76, 4 pl. [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Genus name 'Fosteria' after Merrill W. Foster who described the species assigned to this new genus (Magellania spinosa). [details]