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BRACHIOPODA IN THE FAROEISLANDS AREA
Recent description: Brunton and Curry (1979: 32-33,
fig. 14).
Previous published record: "occurring in Greenland
and the Feroe Islands" (Beck and Sowerby in
Lyell, 1842- quoted by Morch, 1867).
BIOFAR station: 473+ (+ = empty shell, not fossil).
Area: Northeast of the Faroe Islands.
Depth: 198 m.
Estimated bottom temperature: 7.7°C.
Water mass: AW.
Sediment: Shellsand and cobbles.
Atlantic distribution: South, west and northeast of Ire-
land; Shetland; the Orkneys; the Hebrides; the
North Sea; Norway (north of Trondheim); south of
Iceland; Spitsbergen; Greenland; east of Canada
and U.S.A. (Wesenberg-Lund, 1939, 1941; Brun-
ton and Curry, 1979; Thomsen and Brattegard,
1997).
Atlantic depth range: 15-1096 m not only Atlantic!
(Brunton and Curry, 1979).
Order TEREBRATULIDA
Suborder TEREBRATULIDINA
Family CANCELLOTHYRIDIDAE
Genus Terebratulina d'Orbigny, 1847
Terebratulina retusa (Linne, 1758) (Fig. 3)
Synonyms: Anomia retusa Linne (1758); Anomia
caput-serpentis Linne (1767); Terebratulina caput-
serpentis Jeffreys (1878); Terebratulina caput-ser-
pentis Davidson (1886); Terebratulina caput ser-
pentis Wesenberg-Lund, (1940).
Descriptions: Wesenberg-Lund, (1941: 6-8, fig. 1-2);
Brunton and Curry (1979: 38-39, fig. 17).
Previous published records: ”LightningUnknown lo-
cation off the Faroes (Morch, 1868). ”Lightning”:
Stn 4, 59°36'N, 7°20'W, 530 ftm (Jeffreys, 1878).
”PorcupineStn 61, 62°1'N, 5°19'W, 114 ftm
(Jeffreys, 1878). ”Diana61°40'N, 7°40'W, 254
m (Wesenberg-Lund, 1940). ”Guldborgsund”:
South of Nolsø, 150 m (probably 16 kvml east-
southeast of Nolsø) (Wesenberg-Lund, 1940).
”Michael SarsStn 44, 62°16'N, 5°44'W, 95-115
m; Stn 44, 62°16'N, 5°54'W (6°06'W in station-
list), 103 m; Stn 57, 62°29'N, 5°17'W, 301 m; Stn
77, 60°25'N (60°23'N in stationlist), 8°55'W, 338
m; Stn 82, 61°09'N, 7°54'W, 341 m (Wesenberg-
Lund, 1940). ”DanaStn 5702, 61°21'N, 6°22'W,
282 m; Stn 5840, 62°44'N, 6°06'W, 330 m (We-
senberg-Lund, 1940). ”Ingolf’: Stn 1, 62°30'N,
8°21'W, 248 m; Stn 3, 63°35'N, 10°24'W, 512 m
(Wesenberg-Lund, 1941). ”Michael SarsStn 45,
62°17'N, 4°57'W, 275 m; Stn 58, 62°26'N,
Fig. 2.. Hemithririr psittacea