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Most of the author missing the genus Discardisca Cooper, 1977 were using Discinisca including for fossil taxa. Consequently the classification of the Discinidae is confusion about the description and the identification of either genera and species.

See also in English Antarctic Brachiopods   and in French Brachiopodes de l'Antarctique

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