Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Brachiopoda > Subphylum Rhynchonelliformea > Class Rhynchonellata > Order Terebratulida > Suborder Terebratellidina > Superfamily Kraussinoidea > Family Kraussinidae

Megerlia King, 1850

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Muehlfeldtia*	Bayle, 1880	synonym
*Pantellaria*	Dall, 1919	synonym

Children

Megerlia truncata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Literature

original description	King, W. (1850). A Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society Monograph. London. 3(5): i–xxxviii + 1–258 p., 28 pl.
basis of record	Howson, C.M. (2001). Brachiopoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 334
additional source	Logan, A. (2007). Geographic distribution of extant articulated brachiopods. In: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Brachiopoda (revised), vol.6, 3082–3115. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
additional source	Bitner, M. A. (2007). Recent brachiopods from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, Southcentral Pacific. Zoosystema. 29:491–502.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].

Genbank

Citation

Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Megerlia King, 1850. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:104045