Schizoporella unicornis

Souto, Javier, Kaufmann, Manfred J. & Canning-Clode, João, 2015, New species and new records of bryozoans from shallow waters of Madeira Island, Zootaxa 3925 (4), pp. 581-593 : 588

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.7

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5217722

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scientific name

Schizoporella unicornis
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Schizoporella unicornis View in CoL (Johnston in Wood, 1844)

( Figs 24, 25 View FIGURES 24 – 25 )

Lepralia unicornis Johnston in Wood, 1844: 19.

Schizoporella unicornis: Hincks 1880: 288 View in CoL , pl. 35, figs 1, 2, 4, 5; Hayward & Ryland 1999: 220, figs 90B, 91; Tompsett et al. 2009: 2230 View Cited Treatment , figs 1E, F, 2A–F.

Material examined. MMF 44294, 44307, 32º38’03.34’’ N; 16º56’04.05’’ W, 11 m, August 2013, on rock samples.

Remarks. Schizoporella unicornis was recently redescribed by Tompsett et al. (2009) from the type material. Our specimens match the descriptions and figures given by these authors. The species appears to have a biogeographical range in the northeast Atlantic, from northwest Africa and Spain to the Faroes and western Norway ( Hayward & Ryland, 1999). In Madeira it seems to be common, having been recorded previously by several authors ( Busk 1860; Waters 1899; Norman 1909).

Tompsett, S., Porter, J. S. & Taylor, P. D. (2009) Taxonomy of the fouling cheilostome bryozoans Schizoporella unicornis (Johnston) and Schizoporella errata (Waters). Journal of Natural History, 43, 2227 - 2243. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930903090140

Busk, G. (1860) Zoophytology. Catalogue of the Polyzoa collected by J. Y. Johnson, Esq., at Madeira, in the years 1859 and 1860, with descriptions of new species. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 8, 213 - 214, 280 - 285.

Hayward, P. J. & Ryland, J. S. (1999) Cheilostomatous Bryozoa. Part 2. Hippothoidea - Celleporoidea. Synopses of the British Fauna, New Series, 14, 1 - 416.

Hincks, T. (1880) Contributions towards a general history of the marine Polyzoa. Part I. Madeiran Polyzoa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 6, 69 - 80.

Norman, A. (1909) The Polyzoa of Madeira and neighbouring islands. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 30, 275 - 314.

Waters, A. W. (1899) Bryozoa from Madeira. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1899, 6 - 16. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2818.1899. tb 00139. x

Gallery Image

FIGURES 24 – 25. Schizoporella unicornis: 24, autozooids and avicularia; 25, orifice and avicularia.

MMF

Museu Municipal do Funchal

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Bryozoa

Class

Gymnolaemata

Order

Cheilostomatida

Family

Schizoporellidae

Genus

Schizoporella

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Bryozoa

Class

Gymnolaemata

Order

Cheilostomatida

Family

Bryocryptellidae

Genus

Lepralia