Brachiopoda sunt animalia nonnisi marina, immobilia, quorum corpus inter organa principalia lophophorum (coronam tentaculorum) habet et concha e duabus valvis inaequalibus consistente tegitur. In taxinomiabiologica tamquam phylum habentur.[1] Brachiopoda hodierna pauca sunt, circa 100 genera cum circa 400 speciebus;[2] attamen numerus generum brachiopodorum fossilium plus quam 4200 est.[3]
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↑Curry, G.B. & Brunton, C.H.C. (2007), "Stratigraphic distribution of brachiopods" in Selden, P. (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Brachiopoda (retractata), 6: 2901–3081 (Boulder–Lawrence: Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press).