Logan, A. (2005). A new lacazelline species (Brachiopoda, Recent) from the Maldive Islands, Indian Ocean. Systematics and Biodiversity. 3(1): 97-104.

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10.1017/s1477200004001586 [view]

Logan, A.

2005

3(1): 97-104

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A new lacazelline brachiopod species is described from reef caves in the outer reef slope zone off Addu and South Male atolls in the Maldive Islands, Indian Ocean. Based on anatomical features of the soft parts, shell morphology and shell microstructure the new taxon is assigned to the genus Ospreyella Lüter and Wörheide 2003 in the subfamily Lacazellinae of the family Thecideidae. This new species, here named O. maldiviana and representing the first occurrence of the genus in the Indian Ocean, is compared with the type species O. depressa Lüter from Osprey Reef, Coral Sea, Australia. Comparisons are made between Ospreyella (now two species) and the other extant lacazelline genera Lacazella Munier-Chalmas (three species) and Pajaudina Logan (one species).

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