title: Checklist of Recent thecideoid brachiopods from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, with a description of a new species of Thecidellina from Europa Island and a re-description of T. blochmanni Dall from Christmas Island.
abstract: Compilation of a checklist of Recent thecideoid brachiopods from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea indicates that members of this superfamily are represented by a small number of species. The subfamily Lacazellinae is represented by Ospreyella maldiviana from the Maldive Islands but the presence of Lacazella cannot yet be confirmed in the Indian Ocean as the holotype of Lacazella mauritiana from Mauritius is lost. The subfamily Thecidellininae is represented by Thecidellina blochmanni from Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea while a new species T. europa is here described from Europa Island in the Mozambique Channel. The subfamily Minutellinae is represented by Minutella minuta from Samper Bank and Walters Bank in the south-western Indian Ocean and in the Red Sea. Since the holotype of Thecidellina blochmanni from Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island is also lost, this species is re-described and illustrated mainly from topotypes in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, from which a suggested neotype has been selected.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Coastal Studies, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, N.B., E2L 4L5, Canada.; Email: logan@unbsj.ca.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Logan
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde, Leibnitz Institute for Evolutions and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.; Email: jana.hoffmann@mfn-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde, Leibnitz Institute for Evolutions and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.; Email: carsten.lueter@mfn-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lüter
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D057189:Checklist; D019156:Indian Ocean; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development; D062312:Islands; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D009929:Organ Size