Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Brachiopoda > Subphylum Linguliformea > Class Lingulata > Order Lingulida > Superfamily Discinoidea > Family Discinidae > Genus Pelagodiscus

Pelagodiscus atlanticus (King, 1868)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pelagodiscus*	Dall, 1908	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Discina atlantica*	King, 1868	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Macfarlan, D.A.B.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Campbell, H.J.; Cooper, R.A.; Lee, D.E.; MacKinnon, D.I.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Wright, A.J.; Robinson, J.H. (2009). Phylum Brachiopoda: lamp shells, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 255-267.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Emig, C. C. (2017). Atlas of Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic Brachiopoda. Carnets de Géologie, Madrid, CG2017_B03. 93 pp.
additional source	Foster, M. W. (1974). Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic brachiopods. American Geophysical Union, Antarctic Research Series. 21:189 p., 39 fig., 25 pl.
additional source	Zezina, O. N. (1990). Rare and New Brachiopods from the Southern Part of the Atlantic Ocean. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii im. P. P. Shirshova, Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 126: 127-131.
additional source	Dall W.H. (1920). Annotated list of the Recent Brachiopoda in the collection of the United States National Museum, with descriptions of thirty-three new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 57(2314), 261-377.
new combination reference	Dall, W. H. (1908). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 43(6): 205-487, pls 1-22.
taxonomy source	Dall, W. H. (1873). Catalogue of the recent species of the class Brachiopoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 25: 177-204.

Genbank

Citation

Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Pelagodiscus atlanticus (King, 1868). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183339