Size, shape and the distribution of organic matter in the Recent Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva

• Published in: Lethaia
• Main Authors: Peck, Lloyd S., Clarke, Andrew, Holmes, Lesley J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 1987
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522888/; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1987.tb00757.x

The living terebratulid articulate brachiopod Liothyrella uva (Jackson 1912) was sampled from a shallow water population at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. Neither shell height nor shell breadth were directly proportional to length and as a result there was a change in shell shape wi...