Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Brachiopoda > Subphylum Rhynchonelliformea > Class Rhynchonellata > Order Terebratulida > Suborder Terebratellidina > Superfamily Laqueoidea > Family Laqueidae > Subfamily Glaciarculinae > Genus Glaciarcula

Glaciarcula spitzbergensis (Davidson, 1852)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Glaciarcula*	Elliott, 1956	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Terebratella spitzbergensis*	Davidson, 1852	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Howson, C.M. (2001). Brachiopoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 334
additional source	de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.
additional source	Logan, A. (2007). Geographic distribution of extant articulated brachiopods. 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.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Thomsen, E. (2012). Brachiopoda Groenlandica – an historical and taxonomic review of brachiopods from Greenland. Steenstrupia. 32(2), 163-186.
additional source	Zezina, O. N. (2010). Check-list of holocene brachiopods annotated with geographical ranges of species. Paleontological Journal. 44(9): 1176-1199.
new combination reference	Elliott, G. F. (1956). On Tertiary Transarctic brachiopod migration. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 12). 9(100):280–286.

Genbank

Citation

Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Glaciarcula spitzbergensis (Davidson, 1852). 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:104059