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Brachiopods from Canopus Bank (Southwestern Atlantic, Brazil)

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The articulate brachiopod fauna (Rhynchonelliformea) of the Brazilian shelf is poorly known, with published occurrence records mainly restricted to the southeastern coast. This study describes three brachiopod species recovered in an expedition to Canopus Bank (Ceará Guyot, Brazilian northeastern coast), namely Tichosina martinicensis (Terebratulidae), Terebratulina cailleti (Cancellothyrididae) and Argyrotheca sp. (Megathyrididae). The range of Tichosina martinicensis is greatly expanded southward from Martinica to the northeastern Brazilian shelf. The southernmost occurrence of Terebratulina cailleti is confirmed for the coast of São Paulo.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank a number of people who helped greatly in the execution of this paper: Alan Logan, Daphne Lee, Jeffrey Robinson, Diogo Couto and Daniel Caracanhas Cavallari for the discussions and valuable suggestions. I would also like to thank Lara Maria Guimarães for her help with the SEM images and Carlos C. Magenta and José Coltro for their help with the material acquisition.

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  1. Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Diamantina, Brazil

    Rodrigo Cesar Marques

  2. Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Rodrigo Cesar Marques

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Marques, R.C. Brachiopods from Canopus Bank (Southwestern Atlantic, Brazil). Mar Biodiv 48, 1591–1594 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0583-1

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