Frenulina

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Rhynchonellata Family Frenulinidae		Phylum Brachiopoda Order Terebratulida Rank Genus

Similar Argyrotheca, Terebratulina gracilis, Discinisca, Gwynia, Novocrania anomala

Frenulina is a extant genus of brachiopods, known from shallow waters in the warmer parts of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its shell is biconvex, rounded pentagonal in profile, and dependent on the species scarlet with creamy white radiating stripes of quickly varying width, beige or seldomly entirely white. It lives attached by a stalk to a hard underground.

Species and distribution

Frenulina sanguinolenta has creamy white radiating stripes of quickly varying width on a scarlet shell, or is very rarely entirely white. It is very common in the western Pacific, including Australia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Philippines, China, Japan and Hawaii, but also occurs in the Indian Ocean.

F. cruenta is known from the Indian Ocean.

F. mauiensis occurs in Hawaii.

References

Frenulina Wikipedia

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