Overlooked brachiopods from the Karubenthos & Madibenthos expeditions (French Caribbean) - biodiversity and ecology

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Gaspard, Danièle (2026): Overlooked brachiopods from the Karubenthos & Madibenthos expeditions (French Caribbean) - biodiversity and ecology. European Journal of Taxonomy 1056: 1-75, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1056.3280, URL: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/3280/14477 Abstract. Several marine expeditions by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Karubenthos and Madibenthos) with the RV “ L’Antea ” around the French Caribbean Islands, allow for the first time to highlight, among benthic faunas, the presence and diversity of representatives of the phylum Brachiopoda.

Thirty species, including two new ones: Tichosina madininensis sp. nov. and Argyrotheca beaumalei sp. nov., and one never recorded before from the Caribbean Sea (Amphithyris aff. buckmanni Thomson, 1918) were recognised, belonging to the three subphyla composing the phylum. The diversity of the fauna, its morphological and microstructural characteristics, geographical distribution, and ecology are taken into consideration when comparing it with similar fauna from elsewhere in the Caribbean Sea and all over the world when available.