APHOTOMARINE
An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.
Craniata (Class) > Craniida (Order) > Cranioidea (Superfamily) > Craniidae (Family)
Novocrania
Novocrania anomala (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- A craniid brachiopod *SNMNH
Rhynchonelliformea (Subphylum)
Rhynchonellata (Class) > Terebratulida (Order) > Terebratellidina (Suborder) > Kraussinoidea (Superfamily) > Kraussinidae (Family)
Megerlia
Megerlia truncata (Linnaeus, 1767)
- A kraussinid brachiopod *SNMNH
Rhynchonellata (Class) > Terebratulida (Order) > Terebratellidina (Suborder) > Laqueoidea (Superfamily) > Laqueidae (Family)
Glaciarcula
Glaciarcula spitzbergensis (Davidson, 1852)
- A laqueid brachiopod *NHM London
Rhynchonellata (Class) > Terebratulida (Order) > Terebratellidina (Suborder) > Megathyridoidea (Superfamily) > Megathyrididae (Family)
Argyrotheca
Argyrotheca cuneata (Risso, 1826)
- A megathyridid brachiopod *SNMNH
Megathiris
Megathiris detruncata (Gmelin, 1791)
- A megathyridid brachiopod *SNMNH
Rhynchonellata (Class) > Terebratulida (Order) > Terebratulidina (Suborder) > Terebratuloidea (Superfamily) > Terebratulidae (Family) > Gryphinae (Subfamily)
Gryphus
Gryphus vitreus (Born, 1778)
- A terebratulid brachiopod *SNMNH
Rhynchonellata (Class) > Terebratulida (Order) > Terebratellidina (Suborder) > Zeillerioidea (Superfamily) > Zeilleriidae (Family) > Macandreviinae (Subfamily)
Macandrevia
Macandrevia cranium (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- A zeilleriid brachiopod *Turk
Rhynchonellata (Class) > Terebratulida (Order)
> Terebratulida incertae sedis (Suborder)
> Gwynioidea (Superfamily)
Gwynia
Gwynia capsula (Jeffreys, 1859)
- A brachiopod * HH
*SNMNH - Photography from the Department of
Paleobiology Collections at the Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History.
*NHM London - Photographs © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.
*HH - Photography by Hans Hillewaert
*Turk - From the Turk collection, a collection of mollusca and other curios made by the late Stella Turk MBE, currently curated by the author of APHOTOMARINE.
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Lamp shells / brachiopods, not native,
collected by the late Stella Turk MBE
Lingulida (Order)
Linguloidea (Superfamily) > Lingulidae (Family)
Lingula
Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801
- Common oriental lamp shell (not found in the UK)
Terebratulida (Order)
Terebratulidina (Suborder) > Terebratuloidea (Superfamily) > Terebratulidae (Family)
Terebratulidae
Terebratulid species? unknown origin
