Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816

Moissette, Pierre, Antonarakou, Assimina, Kontakiotis, George, Cornée, Jean-Jacques & Karakitsios, Vasileios, 2021, Bryozoan faunas at the Tortonian-Messinian transition. A palaeoenvironmental case study from Crete Island, eastern Mediterranean, Geodiversitas 43 (26), pp. 1365-1400 : 1383

Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816

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Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816: 127 . — Audouin 1826: 236; Savigny 1817: pl. 6, fig. 7. — Prenant & Bobin 1966: 382, text-fig. 124. — Ryland & Hayward 1977: 124, text-figs 56A, 59. — Poluzzi & Padovani 1984: 109, fig.5d.— Zabala 1986: 307, text-fig.84:3a-e; pl.3, figs E-F.— Moissette 1988: 104, pl.17, figs 1-2. — Zabala & Maluquer 1988: 94, text-figs 137-140; pl. 2, fig. H. — Schmid 1989: 18, pl. 4, figs 3-6. — El Hajjaji 1992: 129, pl.6, fig.7. — Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995: 788, pl. 3, fig. 1. — Haddadi-Hamdane 1996: 71, pl. 6, figs 12- 13. — López de la Cuadra & García-Gómez1996: 158, figs 1C, 3A-F, 4.

OCCURRENCE. — Early Miocene: France ( Pouyet 1991). Middle Miocene: Austria ( Schmid 1989), Hungary ( Moissette et al. 2006), Czech Republic, Poland ( Pouyet 1997). Late Miocene: Morocco ( El Hajjaji 1992), Algeria ( Moissette 1988). Pliocene: Algeria (Haddadi-Hamdane 1996), Crete. Pleistocene: Sicily ( Poluzzi & Padovani 1984), Rhodes ( Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995). Recent: eastern Atlantic ( Morocco, Madeira, up to the Shetland Islands), Mediterranean, Red Sea. The species has been recorded from the Atlantic at depths of 0-360 m (and even down to 636 m in Morocco).In the Mediterranean, it occurs from the shallow infralittoral down to 280 m.

REMARKS

A number of specimens, especially those from the Faneromeni section, resemble C. salicornioides var. normani , a variety created by Hastings (1946) and considered as a distinct species, C. normani , by Prenant & Bobin (1966). However, López de la Cuadra & García-Gómez (1996) considered that the slight morphological differences (more slender internodes and larger avicularia in C. normani ) do not justify the erection of a distinct taxon.

Figures

FIG. 10. — A-C, Scrupocellaria cf. elliptica (Reuss, 1847);A, view of some zooids showing opesia with 4 spine bases on the outer distal part and 3 spine bases + 1 scutal spine on the inner distal rim, FAN36:AMPG(IV) 3587; B, zooids with 7 spine bases and the scutum, FAN35:AMPG(IV) 3586a; C, dorsal surface of a colony fragment with small vibracularia and radicular pores, FAN35: AMPG(IV) 3586b; D, E, Scrupocellaria scrupea Busk, 1852; D, ovicellate colony fragment, FAN35: AMPG(IV) 3590a; E, detail frontal view showing opesia with five spine bases, FAN35: AMPG(IV) 3590b; F-H, Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816; F, part of a slender internode, FAN18: AMPG(IV) 3513a; G, detail view showing denticles and endotoichal ovicells, POTB13: AMPG(IV) 2821a; H, avicularia in frontal and lateral view (arrow), POTB13:AMPG(IV) 2821b; I, Gemellipora eburnea Smitt, 1873, broken internode showing two zooids with two oval scars separated by a thin interzooidal groove, CAP032: AMPG(IV) 3426. Scale bars: A-E, G, I, 100 µm; F, H, 200 µm.