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Novocrania hawaiiensis

Novocrania hawaiiensis

(Dall, 1920)

GBIF:135435380

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Descriptions(2)

1986: Neocrania hawaiiensis (Dall), Lee & Brunton, Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. (Geol.), 40 (4), p. 152. 2001: Novocrania hawaiiensis (Dall), Lee & Brunton, Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. (Geol.), 57 (1), p. 5.
Jeffrey H Robinson (2017): A review of all Recent species in the genus Novocrania (Craniata, Brachiopoda). Zootaxa 4329 (6): 501-559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.1
Material and synonymy. Dall (1920, p. 272) named this species from a “ single ventral valve ” attached to a gastropod from off the coast of Bird Island, Hawaii. The type specimen (USNM 335294) was borrowed from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC. I suggest that this specimen is not a craniid. The attached valve is sub-round (though fractured), thin, without punctae or muscle scars and with very fine, closely packed, radial costae on the inner surface. There are no morphological features that place this specimen in the Craniidae.
Jeffrey H Robinson (2017): A review of all Recent species in the genus Novocrania (Craniata, Brachiopoda). Zootaxa 4329 (6): 501-559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.1

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A review of all Recent species in the genus Novocrania (Craniata, Brachiopoda)

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Jeffrey H Robinson (2017): A review of all Recent species in the genus Novocrania (Craniata, Brachiopoda). Zootaxa 4329 (6): 501-559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.1

Abstract

The Recent species in the craniid genus Novocrania are reviewed, based on the examination of actual specimens wherever possible, especially for species named from one or a few specimens. The fourteen Recent species currently in the literature are reduced to eight; five species names are synonymized. One species name was given to a specimen that is not a craniid. The wide morphological ranges of the remaining Novocrania species are described and figured and the extended geographical ranges illustrated. Diagnoses of the remaining species are provided. The long-standing debate whether Novocrania anomala and N. turbinata are separate species or synonyms is resolved; they are separate species. New molecular analyses and a relative time-tree are provided by Cohen et al. (Appendix 1), the time-tree is calibrated herein and the results of Cohen et al. (2014; Appendix 1) and the time tree are discussed. The likelihood of craniid long-distance migration based on their geographical ranges is discussed.

Jeffrey H Robinson, plazi (2017). A review of all Recent species in the genus Novocrania (Craniata, Brachiopoda). Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.1 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

CC0Published 10/10/2017View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
135435380
Dataset Key
0e5f6453-78e1-4fed-831b-a6385cc5cf07
Origin
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Backbone Key
2252420
Taxon ID
03A687F30A74FF94FF362EAE7BF84B1F.taxon
Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
6/11/2026