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

Megerlia truncata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Anomia Fieber, 1866

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Megerlia*	King, 1850	accepted genus name
*Muehlfeldtia*	Bayle, 1880	synonym
*Pantellaria*	Dall, 1919	synonym

Species group names

*Megerlia echinata*	(Fischer & Oehlert, 1890)	synonym
*Megerlia monstruosa*	(Scacchi, 1833)	synonym
*Muehlfeldtia echinata*	Fischer & Oehlert, 1890	synonym
*Pantellaria monstruosa*	(Sacchi, 1833)	synonym
*Terebratula monstruosa*	Scacchi, 1833	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: truncated brachiopod sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Gestutzte Stielmuschel

Literature

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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Bitner, M. A.; Logan, A. (2016). Recent Brachiopoda from the Mozambique-Madagascar area, western Indian Ocean. Zoosystema. 38(1): 5-41.
additional source	d'Hondt, J.-L. (1976). Sur quelques Brachiopodes actuels (Océan Atlantique, Mediterranée, Kerguelen). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (series 3, no. 350) Zoologie. 243: 1–13, 4 fig.
additional source	Anadón, N.; Fernández-Rodríguez, I.; Arias, A. (2022). Recent brachiopod diversity and distribution from the central Cantabrian Sea and the Avilés Canyons System (Bay of Biscay). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 269: 107829.
additional source	Dulai, A. (2019). New data on the late Miocene brachiopod fauna of Tetti Borelli (Piedmont, N Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research In Paleontology and Stratigraphy). 125(1): 125-145.
additional source	Cooper, G. A. (1982). New Brachiopoda from the southern hemisphere and Cryptopora from Oregon (recent). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 41:1–43, ﬁg. 1–4, pl. 1–7.
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.
taxonomy source	Dall, W. H. (1919). New shells from the northwest coast. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 32: 249-252.
taxonomy source	Bitner, M. A. (2007). Recent brachiopods from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, Southcentral Pacific. Zoosystema. 29:491–502.

Genbank

Citation

Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Megerlia truncata (Linnaeus, 1767). 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:104061