Bugula neritina ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

López-Gappa, Juan, Liuzzi, María G., Castro, Karen L., Bobinac, Magalí & Schwindt, Evangelina, 2022, Fouling bryozoans in Argentine harbours (Southwest Atlantic): new records and the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5205 (4), pp. 374-400 : 381

Bugula neritina ( Linnaeus, 1758)

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Sertularia neritina Linnaeus, 1758: 815 .

Bugula neritina : Lichtschein de Bastida & Bastida 1980: 380, fig. 6; Gordon & Mawatari 1992: 21, pl. 2G, 5F; Hayward & Ryland, 1998: 220, fig. 68; Giachetti et al. 2020: Table S1 .

Material examined. MACN-In 43875, Comodoro Rivadavia harbour, April 25, 2019, collected by Mariana Abelando.

Description. See Lichtschein de Bastida & Bastida (1980).

Remarks. Molecular studies have found that B. neritina is a complex of cryptic species ( McGovern & Hellberg 2003; Fehlauer-Ale et al. 2013) which still have not been assigned species names ( McCann et al. 2019).

Distribution. One of the commonest members of fouling assemblages throughout the world, except in polar and subpolar regions ( Gordon & Mawatari 1992). Widely recorded in harbours and marinas of Brazil, where it has been regarded as a non-indigenous species ( Xavier et al. 2021). Its local distribution includes Mar del Plata, Belgrano ( Lichtschein de Bastida & Bastida 1980), Puerto Madryn ( Giachetti et al. 2020) and Comodoro Rivadavia (this study) harbours, as well as the Malvinas / Falkland Islands ( Hastings 1943), where it is also regarded as a NIS ( Schwindt et al. 2020).

Figures

FIGURES 12–17. FIGURES 12–14. Callopora dumerilii (MACN-In 43874); 12, general aspect; 13, ovicelled zooids; 14, detail of zooid and avicularium. FIGURE 15. Bugula neritina, general aspect (MACN-In 43875). FIGURE 16. Bugulina flabellata, general aspect (MACN-In 43876). FIGURE 17. Bicellariella edentata, general aspect (MACN-In 32310). Scale bars. 12, 15, 17: 200 µm; 13, 14: 100 µm; 16: 300 µm.