Brachiopods in the Linnaean Collection

Abstract

This report is the first attempt to record and figure all the brachiopod specimens preserved in the Linnaean Collection, and to assign the species to genera. Because of the importance of a knowledge of the background to the collection as it exists today, a resume of the work done by one of us (Dance, 1967) follows. A complete list of Linnaeus's species of Anomia is also given, and the present nomenclatorial status of that genus noted.