Logan Alan, Hoffmann Jana, Lüter Carsten
Centre for Coastal Studies, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., E2L 4L5, Canada.; Email:
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibnitz Institute for Evolutions and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Sep 8;4013(2):225-34. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.2.4.
Compilation of a checklist of Recent thecideoid brachiopods from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea indicates that members of this superfamily are represented by a small number of species. The subfamily Lacazellinae is represented by Ospreyella maldiviana from the Maldive Islands but the presence of Lacazella cannot yet be confirmed in the Indian Ocean as the holotype of Lacazella mauritiana from Mauritius is lost. The subfamily Thecidellininae is represented by Thecidellina blochmanni from Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea while a new species T. europa is here described from Europa Island in the Mozambique Channel. The subfamily Minutellinae is represented by Minutella minuta from Samper Bank and Walters Bank in the south-western Indian Ocean and in the Red Sea. Since the holotype of Thecidellina blochmanni from Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island is also lost, this species is re-described and illustrated mainly from topotypes in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, from which a suggested neotype has been selected.
印度洋和红海近代拟苔藓虫腕足动物清单的编制表明，这个超科的成员由少数物种代表。Lacazellinae亚科由来自马尔代夫群岛的马尔代夫鹗苔藓虫（Ospreyella maldiviana）代表，但由于来自毛里求斯的毛里求斯Lacazella的模式标本丢失，Lacazella在印度洋的存在尚未得到证实。Thecidellininae亚科由来自印度洋东部圣诞岛和红海的布洛赫曼拟苔藓虫（Thecidellina blochmanni）代表，同时这里描述了一种来自莫桑比克海峡欧罗巴岛的新物种——欧罗巴拟苔藓虫（T. europa）。Minutellinae亚科由来自印度洋西南部和红海的桑珀浅滩和沃尔特斯浅滩的微小拟苔藓虫（Minutella minuta）代表。由于圣诞岛飞鱼湾的布洛赫曼拟苔藓虫的模式标本也已丢失，该物种主要根据柏林自然博物馆的地模标本重新描述和绘图，并从中选择了一个建议的新模标本。
