Phaneropora galatheae

This rare micromorphic species was found only in a single sample from Crypthelia seamount at 200 – 291 m (Tables 1, 2; Fig. 14). It was earlier noted from the Norfolk Ridge (see Bitner 2008: fig. 15) and New Caledonia (Laurin 1997) and occurs in the South-West Pacific from New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica (Zezina 1981 a; Foster 1989; Dawson 1991). Zezina (1987) reported the species from the Indian Ocean.

Sumber: Recent Brachiopoda from the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia, with description of four new species

Description MORPHOLOGY. Subcircular smooth and tiny single shell, slightly biconvex, with a rectimarginate anterior margin (Fig. 27 A). In the dorsal valve interior: high inner socket ridges, no crural processes and long crura converging somewhat antero-ventrally. The proportionally high septal pillar is plate-like in its basal part, ending by a narrow extremity (Fig. 27 B). Erect ventral beak, foramen large, very small and disjunct deltidial plates, pedicle collar barely visible (Fig. 27 A), teeth emerging from the antero-dorsal side of the ventral valve (Fig. 27 C). Depth range 406 – 644 m, Karubenthos 2 exped.; 225 – 3493 m (see Logan 2007).

Sumber: Overlooked brachiopods from the Karubenthos & Madibenthos expeditions (French Caribbean) - biodiversity and ecology

Distribution The species is recorded from the E Atlantic Ocean, W Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, Indian Ocean, and Antarctica (Zezina 1981, 1987; Foster 1989; Laurin 1997; Gaspard 2003).

Sumber: Overlooked brachiopods from the Karubenthos & Madibenthos expeditions (French Caribbean) - biodiversity and ecology