Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Brachiopoda > Subphylum Rhynchonelliformea > Class Rhynchonellata > Order Terebratulida > Suborder Terebratellidina > Superfamily Megathyridoidea > Family Megathyrididae > Genus Joania

Joania cordata (Risso, 1826)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Joania*	Alvarez, Brunton & Long, 2008	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Argyrotheca cordata*	(Risso, 1826)	synonym
*Terebratula cordata*	Risso, 1826	synonym

Literature

additional source	Logan, A., Noble, J.P.A. (1983). Recent brachiopods from Malta. The Central Mediterranean Naturalist. 1(2): 33-42.
additional source	Bitner, M. A.; Bahrami A.; Josheghani, M. S.; Yazdi, M.; Zágoršek, K. (2023). New records of brachiopods from the Lower Miocene deposits of the Qom Formation of the Isfahan province, Central Iran - Nuevos registros de braquiópodos de los depósitos del Mioceno Inferior de la Formación Qom en la provincial de Isfahan, Irán Central. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 75(2): 1-10.
additional source	Logan, A. (1983). Brachiopoda collected by CANCAP I-III expeditions to the south-east North Atlantic, 1976–1978. Zoologische Mededelingen. 57(18): 165-189, 3 fig., 1 pl.
new combination reference	Alvarez F., Brunton C. H. C. & Long S. L., 2008. Loop ultrastructure and development in Recent Megathiridoidea, with description of a new genus, Joania (type species Terebratula cordata Risso, 1826). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 98, 391-403.
ecology source	Albano, P. G.; Stockinger, M. (2019). The rhizome layer of Posidonia oceanica: an important habitat for Mediterranean brachiopods. Marine Biodiversity. 49(5): 2467-2472.

Genbank

Citation

Verhoeff, T. (2025). World Brachiopoda Database. Joania cordata (Risso, 1826). 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:380200