Seek and ye shall find: new species and new records of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in the Mediterranean
| Autor: | Emanuela Di Martino, Antonietta Rosso |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
Species complex Microporellidae Flustrina 010607 zoology Biodiversity Schizoporelloidea Zoology detritic bottoms 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Bryozoa Reticulate Cave Genus submarine caves Gymnolaemata Animalia Open nomenclature Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Cheilostomatida cryptic species geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Ionian Sea Biodiversity cryptic species detritic bottoms Diporula Infralittoral Algae Biocoenosis Ionian Sea marine protected areas submarine caves biology.organism_classification Biota Habitat QL1-991 Animal Science and Zoology Diporula Infralittoral Algae Biocoenosis Microporella marine protected areas |
| Zdroj: | ZooKeys, Vol 1053, Iss, Pp 1-42 (2021) ZooKeys 1053: 1-42 |
| ISSN: | 1313-2970 1313-2989 |
| Popis: | The Mediterranean specimens of the genus Microporella collected from shallow water habitats during several surveys and cruises undertaken mostly off the Italian coast are revised. As a result of the disentanglement of the M. ciliata complex and the examination of new material, three new species, M. bicollarissp. nov., M. ichnusaesp. nov., and M. pachyspinasp. nov., are described from submarine caves or associated with seagrasses and algae. An additional species Microporella sp. A, distinct by its finely reticulate ascopore, is described but left in open nomenclature owing to the limitations of a single infertile fragment. After examination of all available material, based on their identical zooidal morphology, the genus Diporula is regarded as junior synonym of Microporella and the combination Microporella verrucosa is resurrected as first suggested by Neviani in 1896. Fenestrulina joannae is also reassigned to Microporella. The availability of a large number of colonies of the above-mentioned and other species already well known from the area (i.e., M. appendiculata, M. ciliata, and M. modesta), allowed the assessment of their high intraspecific variability as well as the observation, for the first time, of some morphological characters including ancestrulae, early astogeny, and kenozooids. Finally, M. modesta, in spite of M. ciliata as defined by the neotype selected by Kukliński & Taylor in 2008, appears to be the commonest species in the basin. |
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