WoRMS name details
Megerlia gigantea (Deshayes, 1863)
235719 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:235719)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
Megerlina gigantea (Deshayes, 1863) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Morrisia gigantea Deshayes, 1863 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Morrisia gigantea Deshayes, 1863) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117 [details]
Type locality contained in Réunion part of the Indian Ocean
type locality contained in Réunion part of the Indian Ocean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Megerlia gigantea (Deshayes, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=235719 on 2025-05-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Morrisia gigantea Deshayes, 1863) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117 [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]
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
note: Cooper (1981) first allocates species to genus Mergerlia [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]
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
note: Cooper (1981) first allocates species to genus Mergerlia [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Zezina, O. N. (1987). Brachiopods collected by Benthedi-cruise in the Mozambique Channel. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (series 4) 9 (section A, no. 3).</em> 551-563.
note: Zezina (1987) describes further material from the Mozambique channel but places species in genus Megerlina rather than Megerlia. [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Bitner, M. A. (2007). Recent brachiopods from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, Southcentral Pacific. <em>Zoosystema.</em> 29:491–502. [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Zezina (1987) describes further material from the Mozambique channel but places species in genus Megerlina rather than Megerlia. [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Bitner, M. A. (2007). Recent brachiopods from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, Southcentral Pacific. <em>Zoosystema.</em> 29:491–502. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Zezina, O. N. (1994). Recent Brachiopods from Underwater Rises of the Western Part of the Indian Ocean. <em>Trudy Instituta Okeanologii im. P. P. Shirshova, Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 129: 44-52.
note: Records specimens from Saya de Malla Bank, and Walters Bank, Indian Ocean. [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Records specimens from Saya de Malla Bank, and Walters Bank, Indian Ocean. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
