New species of Bryozoa from Madeira associated with rhodoliths
- Author(s)
- Javier Souto-Derungs, Oscar Reverter-Gil, Andrei Ostrovsky
- Abstract
Four new species of cheilostomate Bryozoa encrusting rhodoliths on Maërl beds are described from material collected at a single locality at Madeira Island. These are Coronellina atlantica n. sp., Hippothoa muripinnata n. sp., Chorizopora rosaria n. sp. and Hippoporella maderensis n. sp. A species of Schizomavella is left in open nomenclature. The genus Coronellina is transferred from the family Calescharidae and assigned to Microporidae. The close similarity of C. atlantica n. sp., a non-opesiulate species with deep depressions, to Coronellina fagei with opesiules, implies that the generally accepted evolutionary sequence from non-opesiulate to opesiulate species might not be the rule
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Palaeontology
- External organisation(s)
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
- Journal
- Zootaxa
- Volume
- 3795
- Pages
- 135-151
- No. of pages
- 17
- ISSN
- 1175-5326
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3795.2.3
- Publication date
- 2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106003 Biodiversity research, 106054 Zoology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Animal Science and Zoology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/3625be72-d84b-4a26-b956-c5f36a248ca4