Welcome to the Brachiopoda home page

Dyscolia wyvillei (Davidson, 1878) from the Azores
as illustrated by Fischer & Oehlert, 1892

On this page I would like to make available data on the taxonomy of the around 400 living members of the phylum Brachiopoda that I have accumulated over the past few years.

On this home page UI will make available as much information on the subject as possible, such as links to other relevant home pages, collection listings and digital versions of papers.

Please also visit the page considering reprint exchange on the subject, you may find the reprint you have been searching for a long time.

To enable me to make such information available I need your help. We would be very grateful to receive reprints of your papers as well as material to add to my reference collection. The material contained in the reference collection is published as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file below (see collection listings). It will be my pleasure to identify material for you as long as I am allowed to keep some specimens for my reference collection of samples large enough to allow that.

An up-to-date classification of the Brachiopoda can be found on EuroBrachNet.

In any case, please do not hesitate to contact us, preferable by e-mail.

Links to other home pages

Type illustration of Orbicula norvegica Sowerby, 1822,
a junior synonym of Discina striata (Schumacher, 1817)

• Smithsonian Brachiopod files, consisting of an excellent bibliography, with key words, which is almost complete up till the early 1990´s, a listing of alcohol preserved material in the collection of the Unites States National Museum, an extensive list of genera with their type species, and a searchable database of type material in the collection. The USNM holds by far the most extensive and important collection of Recent brachiopods in the world, containing the majority of type material of taxa as described by, among others, Jeffreys, Dall and Cooper.
• North East Atlantic Taxa (NEAT) Lophophorate PDF document, compiled by H.G. Hansson, listing the lophophorates found in the north-east Atlantic Ocean. An interesting document, not only dealing with brachiopods but also with phoronids and ectoprocts. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print this file.
• EuroBrachNet, gives addresses of European brachiopodologists as well as information on events. Very valuable listings of recent literature on brachiopods and phoronids can also be found here. Furthermore, an up-to-date classification scheme (many parts still under construction) is given. Web-master is Christian C. Emig.
• The Iberian Fauna project server, mastered by Marisa Esteban, contains an up-to-date list of the Brachiopoda of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands, authored by Fernande Alvarez.

Please report dead or outdated links as well as new and relevant links to us!

Collection listings

Documents listed below are all in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these documents. Position your cursor over the link, press you right mouse button and selest Save target as to save each document on your own comuter for future reference.

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• PDF listing of the rapidly growing private collection of Ron Voskuil. This listing will be updated regularly, this version 8 is of August 9, 1999. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print this file.
• PDF listing of the brachiopod collection of the Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This listing will be updated regularly, this version 1 is of February 10, 1999.Only the samples in the dry collection are listed, the alcohol preserved samples to be added later. Although the collection is not very extensive, it contains the major part of the material obtained during the Dutch Siboga Expedition to Indonesia, 1899-1900, including the holotype and paratypes of Discinisca keiensis Jackson & Stiasny, 1937. The collection is kept at the malacology department of the ZMA. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print this file.

All collection listings are prepared with Eledone, a collection management system by BioSys Software & Multimedia. Documentation on that product can be found here.

Digital versions of magazine articles

Documents listed below are all in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these documents. Position your cursor over the link, press you right mouse button and selest Save target as to save each document on your own computer for future reference.

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• Voskuil, R., 1998. On a small collection of Hawaiian Brachiopoda (Lophophorata). [549 KB] - Internet Hawaiian Shell News, November 1998: 2-13. [This electronic document does not constitute publication accordong to the rules of the ICZN. The document is listed for sake of completeness, the layout of the publication is a real horror and the editor has liberally added photo captions and drawings that make me shiver but anyway, its data]

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Page last updated: 13-08-2000.