WoRMS taxon details
Simplicithyris Zezina, 1976
235316 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:235316)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Zezina, O. N. (1976). [A new genus of Recent terebratelloid brachiopod from the sublittoral of the Kurilo-Kamchatka region.]. <em>In: Donnaia Fauna Kraevykh Morei SSSR [Bottom Fauna of the USSR Fringing Seas]. Akademia Nauk SSSR, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Moscsow.</em> p. 101–105, 1 pl. In Russian with English abstract. [details]
Taxonomic remark The family and superfamily placement of this genus within SubOrder Terebratellidina was uncertain for a long time (per...
Taxonomic remark The family and superfamily placement of this genus within SubOrder Terebratellidina was uncertain for a long time (per BrachNet 2023), but Simon Mottequin (2018) recognized the similarity of Simplicithyris to the fossil genera Jagtithyris and Leptothyrellopsis, and therefore tentatively assigned it to the same family (Jagtithyrididae). However, given the great stratigraphic gap between the extant Simplicithyris and these Cretaceous genera, it may prove better to create a new family/sub-family in future. [details]
Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Simplicithyris Zezina, 1976. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=235316 on 2025-05-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Zezina, O. N. (1976). [A new genus of Recent terebratelloid brachiopod from the sublittoral of the Kurilo-Kamchatka region.]. <em>In: Donnaia Fauna Kraevykh Morei SSSR [Bottom Fauna of the USSR Fringing Seas]. Akademia Nauk SSSR, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Moscsow.</em> p. 101–105, 1 pl. In Russian with English abstract. [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]
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]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Simon, E.; Mottequin, B. (2018). Extreme reduction of morphological characters: a type of brachidial development found in several Late Cretaceous and Recent brachiopod species—new relationships between taxa previously listed as incertae sedis. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4444(1): 1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4444.1.1
note: Tentatively assigns genus Simplicithyris to family Jagtithyrididae, and provides some re-description of the type species. [details] Available for editors
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note: Tentatively assigns genus Simplicithyris to family Jagtithyrididae, and provides some re-description of the type species. [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The family and superfamily placement of this genus within SubOrder Terebratellidina was uncertain for a long time (per BrachNet 2023), but Simon Mottequin (2018) recognized the similarity of Simplicithyris to the fossil genera Jagtithyris and Leptothyrellopsis, and therefore tentatively assigned it to the same family (Jagtithyrididae). However, given the great stratigraphic gap between the extant Simplicithyris and these Cretaceous genera, it may prove better to create a new family/sub-family in future. [details]
